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Did Instagram Make Privacy Blunder?
- Quartz, Monday, January 12, 2015 11:25 AM
Instagram was unintentionally leaving users vulnerable to unwanted privacy breaches, according to Quartz. “A privacy hole was publicly exposing an untold number of photographs Instagram users believed were private, until Instagram fixed it this weekend in apparent response to queries by Quartz,” it reports. “Tests by Quartz had showed that a photograph posted to Instagram when a user’s account is set to public -- the default setting -- would remain publicly viewable on the Web, even if the user made her account private.”
