Facebook & Instagram improve privacy for user data

The social networks Facebook and Instagram improve the privacy of their customer data. In the past, a research held by the Civil Liberties Association (ACLU) had revealed data usage by third parties in he Internet analysis company “Geofeedia”, in which the company publicly viewed customer data from Facebook, Instagram and Twitter regarding participation in protest actions, which were evaluated and sold to government agencies. Facebook and Instagram responded by improving the conditions with regard to data usage so that they should be more stringent now. Accordingly, software developers are now expressly forbidden to use data from the networks for monitoring purposes. By the end of 2016 Twitter had already issued appropriate regulations.