On 4 January, Instagram sent me 10 folders of data – nearly 8,000 photos, thousands of text files from my direct messages, and search history. It’s almost certainly not the full collection of information Instagram has gathered on me over the years. “I am 100% sure this is not the only data that Instagram has on you,” said John Ozbay, the CEO of privacy and security tool Cryptee. Also in the data: receipts for the entirety of my relationship with my current partner, whom I met on Instagram. We know that in the past, Instagram has tested sharing precise location data with Facebook, which means it is collecting that type of information from users.

Source: The Guardian January 17, 2020 06:00 UTC