Instagram to sell your personal photos and comments

Instagram’s has introduce new Terms of Service which could see membership levels of the popular photo sharing service dwindle. UK news agencies reported on Tuesday that the Facebook-owned company said that it reserved the right to sell your photos to advertisers without your permission, and without compensating you. 

Instagram's privacy policy on their website reads:
“You agree that a business or other entity may pay us to display your username, likeness, photos (along with any associated metadata), and/or actions you take, in connection with paid or sponsored content or promotions, without any compensation to you.”

This policy applies everyone who has signed up for the account and there is no opt-out. If you are not willing to accept this new policy you must delete your account before January 16.

HOW PRIVATE IS YOUR FACEBOOK DATA?

You may be one of the millions of people bothered about how Facebook stores your information online, if you are, then this is a must read. As Facebook faces an audit over its storage of information, Channel 4 News talked to the 24-year-old Austrian student who has gone head to head with the social networking giant.

How to use Facebook's new gadgets effectively

Facebook opened its F8 conference on Thursday and announced that it had passed 800 million users (which Facebook measures as users that have logged in during the past 30 days). That means Facebook has added about 50 million users since July. Founder Mark Zuckerberg  also noted that Facebook had recently seen its first day in which half a billion people logged into the site.