Legal and privacy
June 18, 2018
Instagram shares many of Facebook's data collection practices. Image credit: Facebook
By Danny Parisi
Social network Facebook has been at the center of a number of data and privacy controversies lately, but its subsidiary platform Instagram has mostly been free from this scrutiny.
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