File under “I miss my old flip-phone”.
In Big Tech news, perhaps you’ve seen the Sep 17 Bloomberg article (reposted by Erasebook.info) regarding an Instagram user who has filed a privacy suit against Facebook in San Francisco. FB blames it on a bug (reportedly fixed) that generated “false notifications”.
In the complaint filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, New Jersey Instagram user Brittany Conditi contends the app’s use of the camera is intentional and done for the purpose of collecting “lucrative and valuable data on its users that it would not otherwise have access to.”
By “obtaining extremely private and intimate personal data on their users, including in the privacy of their own homes,” Instagram and Facebook are able to collect “valuable insights and market research,” according to the complaint.
Facebook declined to comment.
