The Snapchat Inc. application (app) is displayed for a photograph. (Photo : Getty Images/Andrew Harrer)
Snapchat recently explained the recent change to their privacy policy which appears to enable it to view private images of people employing its service.
When the new privacy policy rolled out last week, many people criticized the company for giving Snapchat an unrestricted access to user's snaps and publishing them, Independent reported. However, the company claimed that the major changes to its policies were intended to be used in discovering the way people actually talk.
Part of the policy states that using the Snapchat service grants the company a broad license to use the content you create, which includes broadcasting it. However, contrary to what people think, it is only used when users send their snaps to public forums, such as Live Stories.
The company also explained that there has been no alteration to terms on private snaps, and that it would not be publishing any other images, CBS News reported.
On Snapchat's official website, the company recently posted a blog as an answer to a series of critical articles. The blog started with the statement, "First off, we want to be crystal clear: The Snaps and Chats you send your friends remain as private today as they were before the update."
Furthermore, Snapchat clarified, "Our Privacy Policy continues to say-as it did before-that those messages "are automatically deleted from our servers once we detect that they have been viewed or have expired." This being said, the fact remains that a receiver can always save your Chats or Snaps via screenshot.
