What Instagram's New Terms of Service Mean for You
By JENNA WORTHAM and NICK BILTON DECEMBER 17, 2012
Instagram released an updated version of its privacy policy and terms of service on Monday, and they include lengthy stipulations on how photographs uploaded by users may be used by Instagram and its parent company, Facebook.
The changes, which will go into effect Jan. 16, will not apply to pictures shared before that date.
Facebook and Instagram have both hinted at plans to incorporate advertisements into Instagram's application, although they have declined to provide details about how and when ads would be deployed. These freshly drafted terms give the first glimpse of what the companies might have planned. Here's a quick rundown of what the new terms, the most significant changes in Instagram's short history, could mean for users.
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Believe it or not, this is good news. Facepage could have spent years gathering data, and could have assembled social maps that would have given it a complete picture of the Facepage-using American public. /That/ would have scared me, but /this/ is self-limiting, because the users will get sick of seeing their pictures splashed over the net and their "private" info with it.
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