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The headline of this article should have mentioned the reason her communication was flagged was because she mentioned shooting the student or the school. When you send a text, or Snapchat message, you are stripping out a wide range of non-verbal communication including intent and seriousness. So when someone sends a message with the comment that they might shoot a student or the school there is no way to judge these things. The last thing Snapchat wants or needs is an actual school shooting occurring that can be traced back to the shooter actually mentioning their intent to do so on their platform. With no way to judge intent Snapchat had to have a way to address these concerns. If an actual shooting was prevented then Snapchat would be lauded. Otherwise it's spun like this article implying it's a breach of privacy.
The world with social media is much different than the world before it. It's changed the way people think, the types of things they think about and what they consider important. It therefore changes the way they act. Combine this with the ever growing surveillance state that intentionally wants to manipulate us and is able to do so at scale and speed and we find ourselves in the giant and dangerous mess we're in now.
Yeah no, this is trying to justify a surveillance-state.
The only reason Snapchat would give two shits is fear of lawsuits.
I'm not sure it's fear of lawsuits. We don't sue cell carriers for not monitoring text messages, and even if we did Snapchat's pockets are deep.
Snapchat isn't afraid of being sued... they're selling your data and may also assist the government identify "Anti-fa" agents.
You're right on both points.
It IS a breach of privacy.
Few people who use these apps expect to be surveiled. That may make them ignorant, but that doesn't change that this is a breach of their privacy.
Except Snapchat doesn't have to surveil its customers and we really don't want it to.
Does Apple surveil iMessages? Does your cell carrier need to monitor your text messages? Does it listen to your calls to see if you make terroristic threats?
Some bad things might be prevented if we "listened in" to all communications and then triggered a police response when something alarming was said. But doing so is ripe for abuse by those in power as well and that's why warrants are required before surveillance and the invasion of your privacy is allowed. No warrant was necessary here because Snapchat makes you accept the surveillance under its terms of use, which all apps and cell carriers could technically do. And your Amazon Alexas. We don't want that. Without privacy you don't have freedom.
Your cell carrier might surveil your sms tbh and your phone calls totally could be as well. If something isn’t end to end encrypted it’s probably a good idea to assume it is surveilled.
Legally they can't unless we grant them permission, and we shouldn't. Everyone should be offended if they even ask.
They don’t ask lol they just stick it in page 27 of the document you are forced to sign or else you can’t work or have a social life.
People really need to quit acting like there's an expectation of privacy on what is essentially someone else's land. You're perfectly free to fedpost on your own damn service, but don't expect companies to be okay with you making the same kinds of "jokes" that hundreds of kids that went to commit mass shootings did. This isn't 2000, there are consequences to this kind of action.
So we should grant permission to our cell carrier to listen in on our calls and read our text messages too without warrant? Of course they'll sell your data too.
Don't give up your freedom and your constitutional right to privacy.