Marketplace Tech Report for Wednesday, December 19, 2012

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The net this week is awash with complaints about privacy and Instagram. That's the photo-sharing application Facebook bought this year for about a billion dollars. A new Instagram policy is set to take effect within weeks that seemed to give the company the legal right to use your photos in advertising. Even though the company says it has no plans to actually use pictures this way, the policy change is angering some users.

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Instagram's privacy backlash, and the dirty secret of data caps

A negative response to Instagram’s privacy setting changes, and a paper that calls the reasoning behind service provider data caps into question.
Posted In: data plans, internet access, instagram, privacy

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