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Why We Should Celebrate Snapchat and Encourage Ephemeral Communication

Posted by samzenpus on from the get-off-my-lawn dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Within a few months of launching, Snapchat has made an enormous and lasting impact on the culture of communication on the Internet – and we should all be grateful. They have simplified a security process enough to the point that anybody can use it, while validating the market of the next generation of privacy-preserving ephemeral communication. Most importantly, we may finally get a break from the forced permanence of the Facebook and Google world, where everything you do and share is a data point to be monetized and re-sold to the highest bidder."

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  1. Snapchat doesn't disappear by anthony_greer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Do the editors read the news? I first saw this yesterday morning:

    http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-privacy-watchdog-epic-files-complaint-against-snapchat-with-ftc-20130517,0,3618395.story

    and if they weren't monitoring/storing snap chat, I would think the FBI would be bitching like they do about Skype...