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Instagram bans ad partner for secretly tracking user locations, saving Stories, more

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<p>An extensive new report from Business Insider (https://www.businessinsider.com/startup-hyp3r-saving-instagram-users-stories-tracking-locations-2019-8) today details how the marketing startup Hyp3r was able to use Instagram loopholes to garner an incredible amount of information about users. Hyp3r took advantage of “a combination of configuration errors and lax oversight by Instagram” to build “detailed profiles of people’s movements and interests.”</p>
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