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What to Know About Instagram Map, Location Sharing and Privacy Concerns – The New York Times

What to Know About Instagram Map, Location Sharing and Privacy Concerns  The New York Times Senators urge Meta to roll back Instagram Map feature that sparked uproar  NBC News Instagram rolls out new features including map, reposts and Friends Reels tab  ABC News Lawmakers urge Meta to shut down Instagram Map: “abysmal” at protecting children  Axios What is Instagram map? How to turn location …

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Lawmakers urge Meta to shut down Instagram Map: "abysmal" at protecting children – Axios

Lawmakers urge Meta to shut down Instagram Map: “abysmal” at protecting children  Axios What to Know About Instagram Map, Location Sharing and Privacy Concerns  The New York Times Senators urge Meta to roll back Instagram Map feature that sparked uproar  NBC News Instagram rolls out new features including map, reposts and Friends Reels tab  ABC News What Even Is Instagram Now?  WIRED Source link

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Instagram Users Think a New Map Feature Shares Location. We Get It.

Instagram Users Think a New Map Feature Shares Location. We Get It.

First things first: Does Meta’s new Instagram Maps automatically share your location with everyone? No. It doesn’t. The new maps feature, which rolled out this week, does not share your location by default. If you do want to share your location, it will only be visible to your Instagram friends, or a subset of them. Next: Is it reasonable for …

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How To Limit And Turn Off Instagram’s Invasive Map Feature

How To Limit And Turn Off Instagram’s Invasive Map Feature

Instagram knows where you are, and now, so can anyone who you claim as a friend on the social media platform. On Wednesday, Instagram rolled out a Map feature to U.S. users that will share your location in real time to mutual followers. The feature is not turned on by default, but once you grant people access, Instagram Reels, posts …

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Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

Instagram’s Map is here, and this is how you can turn your location off

Responses have ranged from being mildly annoyed that Instagram is ripping off Snapchat’s Snap Maps instead of offering a default feed that only contains your friends’ posts, to high alert outrage about possibly privacy implications and doxing, as well as how domestic violence victims or others could be put at risk of stalking via the app. Meta says the feature …

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How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

How to use Instagram Map and protect your privacy

Following Wednesday’s launch of Instagram’s new Snap Map-like opt-in “Instagram Map” feature — which lets U.S. users share their most recent active location with others and discover location-based content — Instagram head Adam Mosseri is having to reassure people that their location is only visible to others if they decide to share it. Although Meta has made it clear that …

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Instagram Map: Why Women Are Angry About the New Feature

Instagram Map: Why Women Are Angry About the New Feature

On Thursday, Instagram rolled out a new feature called the Instagram Map. The addition to the platform, which Meta announced on Wednesday, has people concerned—and angry—about potential safety concerns. So what’s actually happening to your account, why is everyone up in arms, and can you opt out of the new addition? Here’s everything you need to know, in the latest …

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Texas’s gerrymandering fight over its midterms map is getting messier

Texas’s gerrymandering fight over its midterms map is getting messier

Democracy’s a pretty simple concept: Voters vote for a politician, the politician with the most votes wins, and that politician then represents voters as an elected official. That’s the idea anyway, right? But what if — just what if — instead of voters picking politicians, politicians instead could choose their own voters? And basically guarantee their own outcomes? That’s what’s …

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Vance to urge Indiana to redraw map to help Republicans tighten House grip | Republicans

Vance to urge Indiana to redraw map to help Republicans tighten House grip | Republicans

JD Vance will travel to Indiana on Thursday to encourage Republican lawmakers to redraw the state’s congressional map to be more favorable to the GOP, the latest in a brazenly nationwide push to reconfigure district lines ahead of next year’s midterm elections. Republicans already control seven of Indiana’s nine congressional seats, but Republicans have complete control of state government, which …

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