[News] A scandal .. "Instagram" is spying on users through their phone cameras without using the application

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A scandal .. "Instagram" is spying on users through their phone cameras without using the application

The US Court of San Francisco is looking into a case against the application "Instagram" and the company that owns "Facebook" for spying on the application's users through the unauthorized use of their phone cameras.

US reports stated that the lawsuit indicates that the application reaches mobile phone cameras for users of the "Instagram" application, even when users are not browsing the application, to collect private data in an unauthorized way to be used later in advertisements to achieve valuable profits, while the company denied the charge, noting Indicates that an error occurred and will be corrected.

Reports of these cases surfaced in July. "Facebook" said that a bug in the experimental operating system for IOS14 was responsible for operating the camera for some users while they were not actually using it, and that it is working to fix it.

According to Bloomberg, an Instagram user, Britney Conditi, has filed a lawsuit against the social media giant in federal court in San Francisco.

Conditi claims that the "Instagram" application was accessing the cameras on purpose "to collect profitable and valuable data on users that would not be able to access it otherwise."

The lawsuit says: "By obtaining highly private and intimate personal data about its users, including the privacy of their homes, Facebook can increase its advertising revenue by targeting users more than ever before."

She also said that "Facebook" "is able to see, in real time, how users are responding to ads on" Instagram ", which provides very valuable information to advertisers.