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Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted. Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be clas…

Snapchat is a very young people oriented app 50% of all users are aged 13-17 which almost definitely means that there are significant amounts of illegal pictures being hosted. This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images?

The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine would make them very liable and open themselves up to legal troubles in that domain too, and I can't help but feel sorry for the people who did send these pictures who had them stored against their knowledge by someone they may have cared about and are now out there for any perv to grab a copy of.

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The more interesting thing about this is that it is likely to result in a higher 'hit' rating of nude/risky pics as somebody using snapsave inherently is intentionally attempting to keep pictures the sender knew were going to be automatically deleted. Another concern would be the age range in these pictures. I personally perceive snapchat as a 'young' persons app. I have a feeling a lot of these pictures will be clas…

Snapchat is a very young people oriented app 50% of all users are aged 13-17 which almost definitely means that there are significant amounts of illegal pictures being hosted. This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images? The hackers in this case have compromised a lot of young peoples intimate images which I imagine wo…

This brings in an interesting area of questioning, does this mean that Snapsave could get in any sort of legal trouble for storing these images?

I find it hard to believe, what makes Snapsave different from any other file hosting service? As far as I know, no service provider is liable unless they are aware of any specific illegal content being uploaded.

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More information can be found here: http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... Edit: NSFW, sorry for not noting that earlier.

That guy is a piece of shit for actually posting some of the pics. Can we find out who he does business with. Who hires him?

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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I'm pretty sure this is a fake. This Kenny Withers guy - (NSFW) http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... seems to be posting it to a bunch of different news sites who are all reporting it now.

Tineye some of the images that are purportedly from the "leak", the few that I've checked have been around for a long time.

Re: 200,000 private Snapchat images astray

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More information can be found here: http://kennywithers.com/featured-online-marketing-articles/t... Edit: NSFW, sorry for not noting that earlier.

That guy is a piece of shit for actually posting some of the pics. Can we find out who he does business with. Who hires him?

I'm betting it's fake. I tineyed a few of those pics from the "leak" and they've been around for ages.
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