Report: One of Instagram's officially approved partners harvested and stored users' stories and location details.
. HYP3R, an Instagram-approved marketing startup based in San Francisco used what Price calls “a combination of configuration errors and lax oversight” to save the user data, in violation of Instagram’s policies. So all those Insta stories you thought would vanish after 24 hours were scraped and saved by HYP3R, who also kept track of your daily movements.
Instagram has already kicked HYP3R off its platform, Price reports, and “made a product change” that will prevent others from tracking location data in the same way. Still, HYP3R was able to exploit Instagram users’ data for months without detection, creating a database that would come in handy for a self-proclaimed “location-based marketing platform.
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