Instagram fined €409 million for illegally letting teens make accounts that displayed their contact information publicly

Instagram had allowed users aged between 13 and 17 to operate business accounts on the platform, which showed the users’ phone numbers and email addresses. The DPC also found the platform had operated a user registration system whereby the accounts of 13-to-17-year-old users were set to ‘public’ by default. Source: The Guardian, September 5, 2022,… Continue reading Instagram fined €409 million for illegally letting teens make accounts that displayed their contact information publicly

Instagram supports exploitive business more than Olympian

Source: The Guardian, August 4, 2021, “Instagram blocks Elaine Thompson-Herah for posting videos of her own golds“ ‘I was blocked on Instagram for posting the races of the Olympic because I did not own the right to do so. So see y’all in 2 days,’ [Elaine Thompson-Herah] wrote on Twitter, a reference to her appearance… Continue reading Instagram supports exploitive business more than Olympian