Instagram will pay researchers to find apps abusing its data

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  • August 19, 2019

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Instagram is getting serious about rooting out third-party apps that break its rules.

The company announced a new bug bounty program specifically aimed at finding third-party apps that misuse Instagram data. Facebook put the program in place last spring, but it didn’t apply to Instagram until now.

Instagram’s new bug bounty program comes less than two weeks after Business Insider reported that HYP3R, once touted as one of the company’s “preferred marketing partners,” had scraped location data and other info from millions of Instagram users. It was later removed for violating Instagram’s terms of service.  Read more…

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