(BLOOMBERG) - Millions of young people are turning their personal Instagram accounts into 'business' profiles to learn more about how their posts are performing. The trend has an unintended privacy consequence.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
- Millions of young people are turning their personal Instagram accounts into"business" profiles to learn more about how their posts are performing. The trend has an unintended privacy consequence.
"I'll talk to parents and say, 'Did you know that if your 13-year-old turns their Instagram account into a business account, more than 1 billion people have access to their contact information?'" Stier said.Many social media sites, including Instagram, set the minimum age at 13, a rule that many teens and even younger kids regularly flout to sign up.If users click the link, they'll be asked if they're a"creator" or a"business.
But the company said they didn't consider his findings a security vulnerability because users made their own choices about what information to display, according to an email exchange reviewed by Bloomberg.
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