A top EU privacy regulator is looking into how millions of Instagram users' personal data was harvested by one of the company's partners

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The Irish Data Protection Commission, a key EU data regulator, wants to know whether EU subjects were affected by the Instagram data scraping.

Hyp3r, a buzzy San Francisco startup, has been scraping millions of Instagram users' data, tracking their locations and saving their Stories posts. The Irish Data Protection Commission, a key EU data regulator, is now looking into whether EU data subjects were affected. The locations Hyp3r targeted included places in the EU, so the answer to that is almost certainly yes.

Hyp3r, a buzzy San Francisco startup, has been scraping millions of Instagram users' data, tracking their locations and saving their Stories posts. The Irish Data Protection Commission, a key EU data regulator, is now looking into whether EU data subjects were affected. The locations Hyp3r targeted included places in the EU, so the answer to that is almost certainly yes.

 

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