Spain sent two F-18 jets to flank an easyJet airliner after an 18-year-old said on Snapchat he was going to blow up the plane, per the BBC.
  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
    441·
    10 months ago

    Are chats on snapchat public? Because if not, this is just an admission of automatically scanning and evaluating all communications on the app no?

    • Zorque@kbin.social
      37·
      10 months ago

      It was not immediately clear how UK authorities were alerted to the message, with the judge noting “they were not the subject of evidence in this trial”.

      A literal “We’re not the ones on trial here!” Holy shit.

    • 0xD
      24·
      10 months ago

      Snapchat is not end-to-end encrypted, so they saw the message and notified the authorities. So yes, exactly.

      “Intercepted while the plane was over England through unknown reasons” my ass lmao.

    • Earthwormjim91@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      Uh Snapchat already does that. Nothing about it is encrypted. And deleted messages are only deleted from your device, not snapchats servers.