Following a shocking expose from Business Insider, major Instagram ad partner Hyp3r has been banned by the platform for tracking millions of users’ locations, saving public Instagram Stories, and automatically scraping user data.
Hyp3r is “an award-winning location-based marketing platform” based out of San Francisco. The marketing firm has raised over $23 millions in funding, […]. petapixel.com
Facebook has suspended 10 large groups on its service that were being used by hundreds of thousands of people to game Instagram in hopes of making their photos more popular. BuzzFeed reports that the move came after it contacted Instagram about the groups, one of which had over 200,000 members by itself. A search on […] petapixel.com »
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Dispo, a popular photo app that mimics classic disposable cameras that recently raised $20 million in Series A funding, doesn’t appear to know what it’s doing with user data, repeatedly editing its policy in response to questions from Mashable, adding and removing lines about location tracking.