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Student Teacher Sent a Private Snapchat Complaining About Her Workday. An Hour Later, Police Pulled Up to Her School (www.gadgetreview.com)
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Snapchat’s automated system flagged a private DM to three contacts and triggered an FBI alert in under 60 minutes, ending her teaching career

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

tangent, but:

and yet Facebook still snooped on Snapchat via MITM attacks

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/