Instagram tracks millions of user sites

The Instagram rules allowed an ad partner to abuse huge amounts of public user data and create detailed records of the user's location and images supposed to disappear after 24 hours. .
The profiles, gathered by the San Francisco-based Hyp3r marketing company, are a flagrant violation of Instagram laws.
These violations were committed during the past year by a company that Instagram considers to be one of Facebook's marketing partners, including Facebook (Hyp3r) in its exclusive list of Facebook marketing partners.
Instagram sent a suspension letter to Hyp3r, confirming that the startup had broken the rules of the Facebook platform.
The total amount of Instagram data obtained by Hyp3r is unclear, although the company has publicly stated that it has a unique data set for hundreds of millions of the world's most valuable consumers.
Sources said that more than 90% of the Hyp3r data came from Instagram, explaining that she was receiving more than a million Instagram posts each month.
Hyp3r has created tools to locate specific locations and collect Instagram public data, including user posts, profile information, and visited sites.
Hyp3r customers can use this data to target people via ads containing a database of thousands of sites.
It turns out that Hyp3r incorrectly collects and stores user data, including stories, that disappear after 24 hours and are not accessible to third parties through the tools provided by the platform.
Hyp3r is designed as a tool to collect stories, keep images indefinitely, and badociated metadata.
By collecting information, the marketing company is able to create detailed profiles of a large number of movements and habits of people.
"Following our actions and violations of our policies, we removed Hyp3r from the platform and changed the product that should help prevent other companies from collecting public pages in this way," said Instagram in a statement.
Hyp3r took advantage of a platform feature that allowed anyone to view information on public pages, even if they were not connected to Instagram at that time.
The platform did so to display service information and to ensure that they appear in Google's search results, but it stopped access to those pages of the site unless users have logged in to the service.
Founded in 2015, Hyp3r denied violating the rules of Instagram, claiming that access to public data on the platform in this manner was legitimate and justified.
The company describes itself as a location-based marketing platform that helps companies launch geo-social data for high-value customers.