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I wonder what Snapchat would return. All the messages ever? Regardless of their pretend volality? Someone please try it, I don't have an account.
by anc84 9y ago
I wonder what Snapchat would return. All the messages ever? Regardless of their pretend volality? Someone please try it, I don't have an account.
- cdancette 9y agoYou can request your data here https://accounts.snapchat.com/accounts/downloadmydata https://accounts.snapchat.com/accounts/downloadmydata. The data is : Data Available In-App · Username · Email Address (current) · Phone Number (current) · Birthday · Name · Snapcode/Profile Picture · Snap Privacy Settings · Stories Privacy Settings · Friends (Contacts) · Blocked Friends · Snapcash Transactions Data Available for Download Account History and Information Snap Count Local, Live, and Crowd-Sourced Content History and Information Purchase History Snapchat Support History Content and App Engagement History Demographic Profile
- gourou 9y agoTheir position is: "Snaps are deleted from our servers after they have been viewed by the recipient".
- ronnier 9y agoRumor is that snap keeps messages in google cloud compute encrypted. When messages are expired or read by the user, they just delete the encryption key.
- emodendroket 9y agoWhy would they do that? Keeping around a bunch of blobs nobody can decrypt seems like a huge waste of resources.
- ronnier 9y agoThat’s just what I heard. If it’s true, there’s probabaly a garbage collection job running that eventually deletes the blobs.
- sanxiyn 9y agoI suspect the same reason PostgreSQL has VACUUM. Immediate deletion can be expensive, and deletion can be cheaper if done in batch. On the other hand, they want to make it immediately unreadable. Deleting key seems to be a good way to make something immediately unreadable while avoiding expensive immediate deletion.
- emodendroket 9y agoOK, yeah, if we're talking about some sort of tombstone operation I get it; I thought the claim was the nefarious overlords of Snapchat were keeping the data around, which was harder to understand.
- TeMPOraL 9y agoProbably for the same reason your hard drive doesn't actually delete data when you tell the OS to delete it, except that in this case, if implemented correctly, the data would become truly unrecoverable immediately.
- emodendroket 9y agoLike I said to the other guy, the comment made it sound to me like for some reason they were keeping the data forever.
- artursapek 9y ago...and keep the original message? Wouldn’t that be extremely wasteful?