Snapchat Scans Your Private Group Chats, and a 22-Year-Old Teacher Found Out When Deputies Showed Up to Arrest Her Over a Joke

A 22-year-old teacher learned the hard way that private group chats may not be as private as they seem — after a joke she typed to a few people reportedly led to her arrest.

She vented to three people in a private group chat after a student wiped her lesson plan mid-class. An hour later, deputies walked into her school and arrested her over a message she thought only her boyfriend and roommates could see.

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