ONLINE INVESTIGATIONS: Snapchat

Snapchat is one of the world's most popular applications for sending 'self-destructing' messages and images. 

Many use the application to send pornography or threatening messages.  But are Snapchat messages really deleted?  Is it possible to recover messages and pictures?  ONLINE INVESTIGATIONS: Snapchat gives law enforcement investigators the tools they need to recover evidence and intelligence in cases involving the application.  Included in this manual are:

• An introduction to Snapchat and a detailed guide to the information the company collects and retains
• Methods of recovering Snapchat messages
  
• Legal Process: Properly identifying Snapchat accounts, alternative identification methods, service of process information including out of state jurisdiction, exigent circumstance requests, preservation letters, subpoenas, and search warrants

• INCLUDES: A sample Snapchat search warrant and a sample mobile device search warrant to forensically recover Snapchat messages and log files