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Millions of Instagram users’ activity tracked

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Hyper and Instagram's Data Sharing Partnership

Hyper is a San Francisco startup and they've been scraping millions of Instagram users' data. They were also tracking their locations because of course whenever you are posting on social media your photos are geo-tagged. This constitutes potentially a privacy violation and that's what the Irish Data Protection Commission is currently investigating. But Hyper say we've been wrongly compared to Cambridge Analytica these statements about us are fundamentally wrong.

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