Instagram 3.0’s New Maps Feature: A Privacy Wake-Up Call?

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Instagram 3.0’s New Maps Feature: A Privacy Wake-Up Call?

Instagram certainly seems to be following in its soon-to-be parent company Facebook’s ethos of “sharing more is better.” Among a handful of mostly minor updates, Instagram 3.0, out today on iOS and Android, adds a photo mapping feature that plots all of y

via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/08/instagram-3-0-update-maps/

Although it’s kind of cool to see your photos mapped out, for most of us here at Gadget Lab, the initial knee-jerk reaction was “Yikes! This is creepy.” It was also a huge reminder of how easily we can forget that our location information is tracked and stored by apps.