Meta says it has made it easy for Instagram users to opt out of the feature. But some online said they remain worried.

Instagram has launched a new location sharing feature that has raised privacy alarms, with users expressing fears about their safety after discovering their locations could be visible to followers.

Instagram users are warning about a new location sharing feature, fearing that the hugely popular app could be putting people ...

In late May, Judge James Donato of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled on summary judgment ...

Some users think Instagram's new map feature is blasting their live location to all followers without their consent. It isn't, but that doesn't mean it's not creepy.

On August 1, 2025, a California federal jury found that Meta violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act (CIPA) by ...

Ahead of the damages phase in a landmark Meta data privacy case involving fertility data, experts are eyeing the potential impact the jury verdict may have on the data privacy class action ...

A California jury has found Meta guilty of illegally collecting sensitive menstrual health data from millions of Flo app ...

On Friday, a federal jury ruled that Meta – the last defendant in a lawsuit that initially also included Google, Flo Health ...

Online safety advocates have been warning for years that our apps collect too much data and store it unsafely.

The verdict found Meta had ‘intentionally eavesdropped’ on Flo users’ in-app communications.