New guilt on Facebook: spying on Instagram users through cameras



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A new one has been added to the discussions about privacy and spying on social media. The number of active users per month exceeds one billion Instagram allegedly spied on users’ cameras for ‘market research’.

A new claim has been made about Facebook, which has been dealing with scandals such as Russia’s intervention in the US presidential elections, and the data analytics company Cambridge Analytica, which works with President Donald Trump’s team, providing insights. to 87 million users.

A person named Brittany Conditi, who lives in San Francisco, USA, said she was spying through Facebook-owned Instagram.

According to Conditi’s claim that she took him to court, Facebook was using phone cameras this time.

News in the media in July indicated that Instagram could access phone cameras even when they were not active.

In Brittany Conditi’s complaint it was stated that “Instagram and Facebook are obtaining very valuable information for market research by reaching very private and personal data such as the privacy of people’s homes.

Facebook did not respond to the allegations.

BloombergFacebook, which he tried to contact, declined to comment on the matter.

In another lawsuit filed in California in August, a user named Kelly Whalen claimed that more than 100 million users had access to biometric information using Instagram’s facial recognition technology.

By saying that Instagram does not use facial recognition technology, Facebook announced that the allegations were unfounded.

Bloomberg, Turkish BBC