It's raising the bar to where you need a warrant though. It means that the police can't just subscribe to that person and see everything that's gone on.
Most snapchat/whatsapp dealers are 100% fake. Engage with them and see how fast it turns into the same scam language someone on Craigslist trying to buy your item from another state is.
Re:How to Buy Drugs
by 0xdeadb00f on Wednesday November 06, 2019 @08:36AM
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> Most snapchat/whatsapp dealers are 100% fake
You'd be surprised how dumb some dealers can be. (This also depends on the location). I may or may not know of people who used to operate on Facebook Messenger, Instagram, but Snapchat is surprisingly popular.
Most dealers who have half a brain use Wickr (it being closed source; I still don't approve, but it's better than Snapchat).
Oh dear, just because a snap disappears doesn't mean a record doesn't exist.
While Snapchat (I don't know about WhatsApp) says that they "typically" don't retain your expired story data, you only need one of your friends/followers to be using a third-party app that does capture and retain data for your record to persist.
I'm guessing that the moment an account is of interest to law enforcement, a social network organization is obligated to start persisting and reporting account data.