Prepare to Delete Snapchat If You Want to Keep Your Data Private - garrettwilicaut

While Snapchat and Facebook have been inconclusive at copying features from each otherwise, more often than not these features are quality additions to each political platform. However, IT looks like the copying isn't limited to user-lining features. According to a new account from Mashable, Snapchat is presently examination a new data sharing API which will share user information with connected apps. If you've been up to speed with the Holocene #DeleteFacebook hunting expedition, you'll substantiate that IT was a like data-sharing API that got Facebook into trouble.

According to the account, Mashable gained memory access to a beta version of Snapchat with a unaccustomed section called "Adjacent Apps" with text that reads, "These apps are coupled to your Snapchat account. Choose an app to control what it has access to." As of now, Snapchat just has an advertising API which allows users to buy ads through a third-party dashboard, but the platform doesn't allow users to link their Snapchat account with some other apps. Even so, with the unaccustomed feature, Snapchat users will live able to do antitrust that.

Delete Snapchat Connected Apps — (Image: Mashable)

On the open, the new feature might look clean handy, as it would give up users to connect their Snapchat account to other apps and unite with their Snapchat friends on new platforms. Happening the inside, withal, the boast bequeath take into account third-party apps to collect data from Snapchat users — which was the direct reason behind the entire Cambridge Analytica controversy.

As of now, Snapchat hasn't disclosed what kind of data would be divided up with connected third-political party apps and whether users would be allowed to control the data being shared. We sincerely go for that Snapchat takes notes from Facebook's mistakes and either dumps the new feature altogether or corset completely transparent with its users about the data being shared. What's your opinion on the feature? Would you #DeleteSnapchat to protect your data? Let us know in the comments section below.