Your Instagram Selfies Are Being Scraped and Sold to Brands

It was bad enough that companies like Facebook and Google relentlessly mine your information and sell it to advertisers. But now third-party startups are getting into the mix. Thanks to unprecedented access to photos uploaded to apps like Instagram, these third-parties are scanning and storing people’s photos on behalf of major advertisers.

Source: valleywag.gawker.com

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