When It Comes to the Recent Privacy Discussion, Snapchat Pulled a Disappearing Act

Opinion: Did the messaging app just let a major opportunity pass it by?

For a platform that prides itself on privacy, Snapchat and its leadership have been relatively silent over the Cambridge Analytica debacle and how it exposed its biggest rival. Is it possible that Snap Inc. doesn’t really think privacy is that important?

In an era where a quick social stalk can produce a person’s education, work history and embarrassing images from the European trip they took in 2009, privacy has never been a more contentious topic. You’d have to live under a rock to not know about the data sharing scandal involving Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.

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