Advertisement
Top

Facebook and Instagram deny access to tools used for surveillance

March 16, 2017

Category:

Facebook and Instagram have turned off the data faucet for surveillance. On Monday, Facebook, which owns Instagram, announced that it had updated its rules to clearly explain that developers can’t “use data obtained from us to provide tools that are used for surveillance”.

Rob Sherman, Facebook’s deputy chief privacy officer, said in the post that the goal is to make the company’s policy “explicit”.

Read More on Naked Security