Snapchat Privacy Breaches: Practical Ways To Minimize Exposure

Snapchat is a photo sharing site based on the premise that your photos delete after being posted.  In January, Snapchat had a data breach resulting in posting of personal information about millions of its users.  Several weeks ago, Snapchat was in the news for releasing celebrity photos to the world (e.g., Jennifer Lawrence).  That issue was either swept up or has not been swept under the rug: it was Apple iCloud's fault.  Fast forward a couple weeks and Snapchat hits the news again last week with leaks of a lot of photos (100,000+?) from its teenage users.

Snapchat blamed third party providers for two of the three breaches, and seemed fairly unapologetic for any of the fiascos.  Snapchat's privacy policy says this about security: