It’s taken a while but SnapChat has finally said sorry for their infamous data breach. But the question still remains is what would you do if your were one of the victim of the 4.6 million usernames and phone numbers that were leaked. Would you just accept an apology? I don;t thinks so.
Cut the guy some slack, he also has to learn. Do you think you would have known straight away how to defend your company against the press, hackernews haters and how to apologize to millions of people when you were 23??
I know it's hard for companies to admit it when they make mistakes / fail, but I think it's important that they do. There's always the risk of litigation etc.. but I think that at the end of the day, given that you can't undo the past, it's always best to come froward and apologize. I know it's talking from the sidelines, and there are probably a lot more considerations that go into it, but as a consumer I do feel better about a company that fails and then takes responsibility for it.
Snapchat has always had the option to provide my mobile phone number in the iOS app so people can find me by my number. I've never filled it in because I was always uncomfortable giving out my phone number to some random app. When the data breach happened, I checked and my phone number was not in the leak.<p>To clarify: the only way your phone number would be known by Snapchat and thus could have been leaked is if you provided it to Snapchat manually, correct?
He should apologize for turning down $3B USD from Facebook.<p>edit - To answer your question: to his shareholders and employees holding options, because it was the right decision from a CAGR perspective.<p>edit 2 - if they get acquired 2 years down the line for $5B, it will still just be a CAGR of less than 30% from the FB offer. It's OT though, so I'll leave the post up to collect my downvote punishment.
Too late, already deleted my account. It was a useless app anyway. I personally had no use for it. Friends would send me random stuff all the time but I honestly didn't care. It was usually mass chats anyway.