Data Privacy
May 10, 2014
Snapchat settles with FTC over privacy complaint
The Los Angeles-based messaging application's agreement reached Thursday reflects the agency's increasingly aggressive crackdown on privacy issues in recent years, attorneys say.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
In a settlement Thursday with the Federal Trade Commission, mobile messaging service Snapchat Inc. - under fire for its claims of full-proof privacy - agreed to launch a comprehensive privacy program that will be independently monitored for 20 years.
The move was a clear sign of the agency's increasingly aggressive crackdown on privacy issues, attorneys said.
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