&gt; Stop pretending you know what you&#x27;re talking about.<p>Calm down.<p>&gt; Do you know how much money is saved by not keeping those pictures?<p>Okay, fine. Even if the pictures aren&#x27;t stored indefinitely (I&#x27;d assume they&#x27;d do batch deletions at the end of the day or something when latency isn&#x27;t as important), all of the photos are encrypted with the same symmetric key which can be found in any Snapchat binary. Which means that they aren&#x27;t any more private than sending unencrypted images.