A quick word of warning to anyone who uses Instagram, the photo sharing arm of Facebook. Facebook are looking to use it to sell users' photos to advertisers, without warning, and may also sell on other information such as cookies, log-on data etc, following a big change to their privacy contract.
You can see the whole story here, but this paragraph is particularly worrying:
"Facebook's photo-sharing site
Instagram has updated its privacy policy giving it the right to sell users'
photos to advertisers without notification. Unless users delete their Instagram accounts by a deadline of 16 January,
they cannot opt out."
In other words, if you're away or taking it easy over the holiday period and don't switch on your computer, you're likely to miss the deadline. So, unless you want your private photos to be sold to companies you know nothing about, and used for purposes you might not even approve of, I suggest you opt out now. And please pass the information on to anyone you know who uses Facebook.
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