The new privacy policy snapchat is not as terrible as it sounds – Hypertext

Last week we published the controversy surrounding the new privacy policy snapchat, in which the company basically going to be indefinite owner of the content published on the messaging service, enabling the company do absolutely everything you want with our content … except that it is not entirely so.

Although the language used by the company implied that we sold our soul when we used the application , the fact is that the privacy of our content remains the same as before updating company policies. First, both the snaps and chat remain completely private , and also do not stay in the company’s servers indefinitely as previously it thought, since privacy policy still leaves quite clear that “ are automatically deleted from the server once they detect who have been or have expired .”

In the end, the content license is basic to convert that content into open public Logically, snapchat control over user privacy is limited to enforcement, so the company is quite clear about what escapes their control, such as screenshots or a chance to save some content through screen recording systems. However, for the company, snapchat is not the best place to keep strictly private content, and certainly is far from being the main objective of the service, as being totally removed from their servers once read, the content It is of no use in the face of that can not be sold for advertising purposes.

But let’s what matters. Of all the changes in the privacy policy snapchat, the most controversial has been the license that we give to the company for our content. The fact is that this license is the same yield to any service that go up content : Twitter, Facebook, iCloud, Google Photos, iTunes … And it is as logical as necessary, to snapchat show content that publicly, you have to assign the rights of our content; something which incidentally is only extensible to those publications that are not private, that is, one license is transferred in cases where the content ends up in some of the public channels.

After all, the snapchat privacy policy is not as dangerous as we thought. Indeed, compared to many of the services and social networks we use, quite well we respected our privacy.