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• A buzzy San Francisco startup has been secretly saving what appears to be millions of Instagram users’ stories and tracking their locations.
• The marketing firm Hyp3r has been scraping huge quantities of data off the Facebook-owned app and using it to build up detailed profiles of people’s movements and interests.
• The situation highlights how Facebook is still struggling to protect users’ data and oversee developers accessing its platform, more than a year after the Cambridge Analytica scandal revealed important privacy lapses.
• Instagram has now issued Hyp3r a cease and desist, kicked it off its platform, and made changes to its platform to protect user data.
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