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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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No Instagram, no privacy — Blog (blog.wouterjanleys.com)

submitted 1 day ago by glowing_hans@sopuli.xyz to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/26553553

The author has no Instagram himself, but through his friends who photograph him at events, others still know about his activities.

Such leakage through other parties might be the greatest risk to privacy.

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[–] Pleat1752@feddit.uk 3 points 1 day ago

I read this post as along the lines of: "Isn't it a shame that even if you don't use instagram because of privacy issues, it is so pervasive in modern society that you will end up on it regardless"

Instagram almost certainly do facial recognition/tracking on a huge scale, and due to the popularity of instagram it's practically impossible to opt out of it.

That was my reading of the article.