Investigation: Snapchat accused of failing revenge porn victims by deleting key evidence within days

Snapchat has been accused of failing victims of revenge porn after a Telegraph investigation discovered the social media giant is failing to store key evidence for police forces in Britain. The company’s servers are designed to automatically delete material including  potentially incriminating photos or videos once they have been opened.  Unopened content is only stored for 30 days.   It leaves police forces in Britain with so little time to request evidence that it makes prosecuting perpetrators virtually impossible. A probe by this newspaper was launched after one victim told us she was left feeling “raped and traumatised” after evidence of her alleged abuser’s revenge porn postings was unavailable, leaving him “free to walk the streets”. A Snapchat spokesperson said: ‘Our records show that in this situation we cooperated with law enforcement officials consistent with our policies.’  Credit: Chris Ratcliffe /Bloomberg News  The woman, in her 20s, spoke to The Telegraph on condition of anonymity. She contacted police after her ex-boyfriend secretly filmed her during sex and published the footage, as well as a number of explicit photos, on Snapchat.  However she claims that the social media company took five months to respond to police requests for evidence. Despite the woman…
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