Snapchat: A Big Scam, By Krisin Burnham

The third flaw of SNAPP benefits is that they lack transparency. The programs do not disclose the value or particulars of the products they purchase. Moreover, they do not even disclose the amount that retailers make from trading with SNAP. This increases the challenges associated with the need for investigative research that would have otherwise identified the fraud and errors involved. The fact that the programs do not reveal the details of their business deals whereas they are public entities raises issues of transparency (Maass,

Currently technology has become more advanced than ever and continues to evolve. We communicate and discover what is going on in the world in multiple ways. For example, through utilizing the internet to search for information, smartphones to connect with our family and friends through applications such as Facebook or Instagram are ways in which people communicate. These advances have prevailed due to the interest and those who use this technology, people are always wondering what others are doing and also like to disclose what is going on in their life. However, oversharing can cause harm in some ways when it is invading someone’s privacy. Confidentiality is a right that should be safeguarded especially in the

Kimberly’s fingernails were once so pretty and pink. Now, they’re stained yellow with nicotine. She rolled another cigarette, her hands illuminated by the one her mouth. “Bitches, they’re all bitches.” Kimberly uttered to herself. Then she started laughing at herself. Here she was sitting on the river bank talking to herself like a crazy person. She looked exactly like one of her many Snapchat victims. “Karma’s also a bitch…” Kimberly started to rhythmically chew on her doobie. She was too focused on every mistake she’s ever made to notice the taste of cheap tobacco. The guilt washed over as she began to break down in a blubbering mess. With tears in her eyes, she looked at her pink Hummer. She couldn’t count all the vulgarities etched across

Privacy! It’s an elementary principle we all value and fight to protect. However, with technological trends, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat, our lives have now become accessible to all. These social media platforms have become part of our daily lives, from sharing personal information or activities to communal networking. The fascination to be trendy and acquire followers, is compromising our privacy principles and places us at significant risk. It’s remarkably easy to pretend that we control what personal information we share, however, realistically we leave technological trails every day we login to these apps, or browse the internet. For the most part, it seems that

Social media has transformed our lives over the past few years. Snap Inc. being one of the major players in this industry with its famous mobile application, Snapchat. As a software engineer interning at Snapchat, I feel that the employees working at Snapchat, should follow a strict code of ethics when it comes to the transparency of the application’s progress and updates as a whole. After all, Snapchat has 150 million daily active users sharing over 9000 snaps per second. So when we are catering to such a large audience, all employees and teams working at Snapchat should be united and transparent with each other.

In his paper, Fried writes that trust is bought through “moral capital” (Fried 484). This moral capital is bought by revealing information that might otherwise be kept private to a friend, loved one, or individual whose trust the informer would like to gain. Moral capital is the trust that an individual will treat another with morality meaning, according to Fried, that they will“[respect] the basic rights of the other” (Fried 479). Fried also states that, “There can be no trust where there is no possibility of error,” suggesting that without privacy there can be no trust as privacy creates the risk of confidential information being disclosed by the receiver of said information (Fried 486). The idea that privacy creates trust has only become more evident with the rise of the internet. In their paper, “Young people online and the social value of privacy,” George Mason University professor Priscilla Regan and University of Ottawa professor Valerie Steeves explore how young people’s understanding and value of privacy has been shaped by the internet. The two found that while young people understand that information posted on the internet can be viewed by family members and the public, they trust that others will follow the unwritten social rules of the internet–essentially that they will act with morality–and respect their privacy by not looking at posts not directed at them (Regan and Steeves 302). This example shows that despite the interconnectedness

I had never use snapchat as my daily social media, however I do believe Snapchat is worth billion, although the report mention the Snapchat keep losing money, but the number of user is still huge, this mean Snapchat can keep growing. In March 2, 2017, Snap went public and trading up 44% a share, this is good sign that many investors prefer this company and predict the company will getting better. Moreover, after they went public, the company can receive more fund to develop and improve their product to attract user. Furthermore, “in late 2013, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel reportedly rebuffed a $3 billion takeover offer from Mark Zuckerberg” (Shinal, 2017). This means Facebook believe this company is worth billion in 2013, although Snapchat is not

A recent emphasis has been placed on the new version of Snapchat, a social media network that allows people to communicate by sending a ten-second picture or video to any of your friends that you have added to your account. According to this application’s new terms of services, Snapchat now has the right to use “any and all account-holders names, likeness, and voices in any and all media and distribution channels for any reason,” and may “review, screen, or delete any ones content they have sent or received through the application. Most people, especially teenagers who commonly use social media, do not pay attention to these terms and services and are granting rights to websites to basically track their

Everyone happens to have at least one party animal as a friend on snapchat. This snap chatter is always out throughout the weekdays having the time of their lives and still somehow manages to wake up early for school or work. The captions for their pictures or videos are usually; ‘we out here’, ‘come through’, and of course ‘lit’. Their snapchat stories are extremely wild, they include the famous game; beer pong. This party animal has no curfew; they usually go home at 5 in the morning and make sure to upload a snap to their story captioning it; “home”. It is quite interesting having these types of people on snapchat but after viewing so much repetition within their story it tends to become

When I first heard about the Amazon Echo, I thought why in the world would anyone need this? Then the conspiracy theorist side of me quickly followed with the thought that its purpose is government surveillance. Now months after its release and in light of a new WikiLeaks scandal it seems I am not the only one who is convinced. Even videos have gone viral asking Echo’s voice Alexa if she works for the C.I.A., with no response. Even begs the question of whether Snapchat is used purely for face mapping its users to collect images for facial recognition.

Anyone can fall for phishing. Your mom, dad, brother, sister, aunt, uncle, grandma, grandpa, or even your dog can fall for phishing. But what exactly is phishing? Phishing is the activity of defrauding an online account holder of financial information or passwords, or anything else important by pretending to be a legitimate company. Basically, it’s a scam. No one is safe from phishing!

Social media has become an outlet for teenagers to communicate constantly, monitor each other’s lives, and control what they want others to see. As social media is becoming more and more popular, more teenage moral panics are occurring. A moral panic is defined as the “fear of a new technology’s or cultural form’s negative impact outside of parental control.” (Jackson) Throughout these past few years, there have been an endless amount of teenage moral panics. Snapchat is an application that has caused a great amount of controversy. With the Snapchat application, you get to control how long the person you send a photo to can view that photo before it disappears. The problem with this is that you can take a snapshot of the photo before it disappears. Snapchat has become to be a teenage moral panic; more specifically Snapchat “sexting”, which is “the act of sending sexual messages and pictures to another person through phones or the internet.”(Klower) On Snapchat parents cannot control what their teenagers are sending and to who their teenagers are sending pictures and videos to. Therefore, teenagers feel a sense of privacy, and use the application to sext, which can lead to various negative behaviors.

For example, Snapchat has recently been ordered to send all face recognition occurred to track possible criminals and threats to the security of the nation. The surveillance on digital privacy is a critical concern and has caught the eye of the public. Some feel that their rights as citizens is been taken away, image seeing a humorous picture from a friend and feeling the presence of someone tracking every movement of one’s

In the beginning of October, reality star Kim Kardashian was held hostage in her Paris hotel room and robbed of most of her jewelry and valuables. Prior to the horrible incident, she posted many different things on social media that the robbers probably used to their advantage. On Snapchat, she flashed her multi-million dollar jewelry on the camera, exposed to millions of her followers. Right before the robbery happened, viewers were aware that she was alone in her hotel room when she posted a video of her congratulating her younger brother through iPhone Facetime. According to CNN, the police has suggested that Kardashian’s prolific social posting about her life and wealth may have attracted the robbers in the multi-million dollar heist. Even though there are many other possibilities as to why the robbery occurred, it is still a valid example of why you should be more reserved on what you post on your social media platforms. Since the popularity of having multiple social media accounts has increased, it is crucial that we are more aware of what we post on social media. Since people are widely using social networks to display a lot of their personal information and give access to potential bullies, future jobs/colleges, or even potential criminals, precautions and social awareness as well as media moderation should be constructed so we can take away the harmful stigmas surrounding its use.

Snapchat is an application used to send pictures for a short amount of time to anyone on the list of friends created by the user. The pictures are to be private and not shared, but other applications’ only purpose is to save snap chats. A third-party company, called snap save, allows people to save any photo sent while the sender is completely in the dark. All the information put out through the servers and hosts can be potentially against you. For example, in mid-October of 2014, many pictures sent were leaked to the internet because of an error in a third party’s database. Roughly, 100,000 pictures were leaked; of these 100,000, many were explicit. Since snapchat only