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Incident #935857 · 29 OCT 2026minor
Snapchat / Privacy Policy EU

Snapchat EU privacy policy drops embedded Standard Contractual Clauses text for data transfers

Fresh · under two weeks

The old EU Privacy Policy page included the full text of the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for transferring personal data to third countries, covering instructions, security, onward transfers, sub-processors, data subject rights, liability and governing law. The new version removes all of this text and adds nothing in its place. The diff does not show whether the clauses now live elsewhere or whether the actual transfer safeguards changed.

Taken from you

  • Directly visible text of the data-transfer safeguards (SCCs) in the policy page
  • Readily readable commitments on liability, onward transfers and data-subject compensation in this document
Evidence · 4 of 4 quotes matched in source
(a) The purpose of these standard contractual clauses is to ensure compliance with the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016− struck · ✓ matched in source
The data importer shall only disclose the personal data to a third party on documented instructions from the data exporter.− struck · ✓ matched in source
(g) The data importer may not invoke the conduct of a sub-processor to avoid its own liability.− struck · ✓ matched in source
For information in Annexes I and II, refer to Schedules 1 and 2 of the Data Processing Agreement.− struck · ✓ matched in source
Archived version ↗ · 2,368 words changed
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