Snapchat, one of the latest trending smartphone apps where you can have secure private image and video messaging with your friends (mind you, this feature has also drew a lot of controversies), that has a destroyable feature; meaning your messages can only last for a few minutes and disappear as if it never existed. This makes the user feel secure that the content they have shared cannot be misused or stolen by others. This, however, seems to have changed recently.

Snapchat has now introduced a new privacy policy and terms of service. The new terms now gives Snapchat the rights to photos sent using the application. The terms states that Snapchat has the right to host, display, use, store, modify reproduce, edit, adapt, publish, publicly perform, create derivative works from, distribute, broadcast, syndicate, exhibit, promote and publicly display that uploaded content in any form in any/all media or distribution methods already known and could be later developed.

These terms, to put to simpler terms mean that Snapchat owns all your messages sent through them. It means that now Snapchat can use your content sent through them to promote their app and can also be shared to the public. Though it seems a bit sketchy on how the terms can further be interpreted or exploited in the future, this still brings questions and concerns from Snapchat's users.

Earlier, Snapchat has been criticised and accused of deceiving their users by saying that the images sent through their service are deleted forever following an expiration time which is a bit of a few seconds or minutes. FTC found out that the images in Snapchat can be easily extracted from the said app and saved, which is contrary to Snapchat's signature service of message expiration. Having released their recently edited privacy policy makes it seem that the FTC might really be on to something. What do you think? Will you still continue to use Snapchat or leave like some of users did?