The FTC took Snapchat to court over its promises about the app's abilities. The FTC claimed that a user-designated time period for a photo to be deleted could easily be bypassed. “Consumers can, for example, use third-party apps to log into the Snapchat service … Because the service’s deletion feature only functions in the official Snapchat app, recipients can use these widely available third-party apps to view and save snaps indefinitely. Indeed, such third-party apps have been downloaded millions of times.

 

"Despite a security researcher warning the company about this possibility ... Snapchat continued to misrepresent that the sender controls how long a recipient can view a snap,” it argued. 

 

The FTC also complained that geo-location information was being included in some images, and that iOS users' address books were being mined without consent.

 

Snapchat backed down and settled the case. "This morning we entered into a consent decree with the FTC that addresses concerns raised by the commission," the company said on Friday. "Even before today’s consent decree was announced, we had resolved most of those concerns over the past year by improving the wording of our privacy policy, app description, and in-app just-in-time notifications. And we continue to invest heavily in security and countermeasures to prevent abuse."

 

Yep, that penis pic might be coming back to bite you in the ass sometime soon. Hope it was a flattering shot!

 

Surprise! Your incriminating selfies on Snapchat weren’t deleted after all [Digital Trends]