Instagram removes ad partner accused of harvesting huge trove of data on users

More than a year after Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook-owned Instagram has banned one of its vetted advertising partners, HYP3R, after it was allegedly caught scraping a huge amount of data on users. The claim comes from Business Insider, which published a report last week alleging that HYP3R was saving Instagram Stories and harvesting posts from public location pages to track users. HYP3R is a location-based marketing platform, according to the firm's website. Business Insider ...