Snapchat Settles U.S. Claims of Deceiving Users On Messages
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Snapchat Inc. settled claims by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission that it deceived users by falsely promising its photo messages disappeared, in the latest hiccup for the fast-growing startup.
While the Los Angeles-based company has publicized and marketed how the annotated photos that its users send through its mobile application will “disappear forever” after a few seconds, there are easy workarounds that Snapchat failed to address or let users know about, the FTC said today.