Yep, society cooperates with law enforcement. It's been that way for about six or seven thousand years. In this case it was in response to search warrants. If you're not outraged, you've been paying enough attention.
If the law enforcement has a proper warrants signed by court, no wonder they are complying with it, there's nothing to "admit". It's like "admitting" if the police stops you on the road, you'd show your driver's license to them. What else could they do? The fact they continue to function makes it obvious they comply with court orders - we all know what happens to those who don't.
I hadn't heard of the app before now, but I'm not finding much sympathy for users of a system built on the premise that they should not have access to data on their own device.<p>Anyway, a clarification of the headline: not only 'unopened' snaps, but also those that have not yet been opened by <i>all</i> nominated recipients. So if a law enforcement agent can have themselves invited into a Snapchat circle they can take advantage of that fact to persist the image on the server until it is legally demanded.
Wait a minute, "thought to be worth $800m"? Is that "m" for "million" and that dollar sign for "dollars"? Has the whole world gone crazy?
That's kind of expected. And 12 since May? Of the many snaps that's a tiny, tiny number.<p>I'm glad they don't actually store for longer than is necessary tbh.
Always there will be the suspicion that that is what they are admitting to but what are they not (or are not allowed) to admit.<p>They may be storing all snaps. They say they aren't but who knows.
Wait, I thought SnapChat doesn't save any images. Wasn't that the whole marketing ploy? How would you have files to even hand over? Seems their DB should be virtually empty.