Snapchat originally rose to popularity thanks to the false sense of security its timed photos provided. It wasn't long before intrepid code monkeys discovered that the app was actually storing photos it claimed to have deleted. That rather blatant oversight has since been corrected, but today the company has revealed that while viewed photos (or "Snaps," as they prefer to call them) are indeed lost forever, previously unseen Snaps can be viewed by certain Snapchat staff -- oh, and they've shared "about a dozen" with law enforcement agencies.
In a lengthy blog post, Snapchat Trust & Safety director Micah Schaffer detailed just who can access your photos and when.
