Snapchat’s transparency report indicates few law enforcement inquiries

The popular photo messaging platform, Snapchat, released its first transparency report where the company outlined the number of legal requests for information about some of the services’ users.



Perhaps a reflection of the fact that Snapchat makes a habit of removing data from its servers as a matter of common practice, the company received 375 requests from US legal sources. When you consider that Snapchat handles roughly 800 million snaps per month, 375 is a pretty small number.



Other social platforms receive an order of magnitude many more legal requests for data, but they also ...