{"id":75688,"date":"2013-04-03T14:37:46","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T09:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.quickheal.com\/?p=75688"},"modified":"2013-04-03T14:37:46","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T09:07:46","slug":"instagram-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/instagram-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Instagram: What you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post<\/a> we talked about various apps and the risks associated with them. In these subsequent posts, we will scratch the surface a little bit and dig a little deeper to understand the privacy implications of one app in particular \u2013 Instagram. Now, that our very own Big B, Mr. Amitabh Bachhan is going to be an Instagrammer, we need to keep abreast of all the hot gossip without becoming a topic of gossip ourselves.<\/p>\n

But first a little about Instagram.<\/p>\n

What is Instagram?<\/p>\n

Instagram is a photo sharing mobile app that\u2019s available for iOS and Android mobile devices. The app allows you to upload a photo from your mobile device library or take a photo right away and use the app to change the way it looks.<\/p>\n

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The app then gives you the option to hashtag and upload it to the Instagram community where people all over the world can like and comment on it. You can also simultaneously share the photo to all the social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, etc. depending on the ones that you sync to your Instagram account.<\/p>\n

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What is the basic information required to create an Instagram account?<\/p>\n

Your first and last name, username, birthday, gender, bio, email address and phone number.<\/p>\n

Who can see your photos?<\/p>\n

By default Instagram allows people from all over the world i.e. anyone and everyone<\/b> to view your profile. Instagram allows you to hashtag (#) your photos, so if you tag your photo as #building, it shows up in any related searches for buildings. If your photo is liked a lot then it can make it to the popular list and every user has the option to follow other Instagram users. \u00a0Additionally if you have a location associated with a photo, it will appear on the Photo map.\u00a0 It will also show up on geolocation tag page.<\/p>\n

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What happens if you share the photo to other social networks?<\/p>\n

The image will be visible on the social network (Facebook, Twitter, Flicker, etc.) and the permalink will be active. This simply means anyone who has the photo\u2019s direct link\/URL can access the photo.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more you might just see your photo being thrown up in Google Search. How?<\/p>\n

If you use a web viewer to log in to your Instagram account, it authorizes them to access your profile and images.<\/p>\n

So basically, if you are not careful enough you can expose a lot about your location, identity, likes and dislikes with this app.<\/p>\n

Photos are personal experiences. Instagram is an amazing way to connect with photographers young and old, amateur and professional all over the world. It gives an insight to places and people we have never met or been to. But when one keeps the aesthetics aside, Instagram is just an easy-to-use app that isn\u2019t devoid of spam, unwanted followers and most of all, a very unclear privacy policy. In a subsequent post we will discuss ways in which you can still happily use the app and safeguard your privacy.<\/p>\n

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In an earlier post we talked about various apps and the risks associated with them. In these subsequent posts, we will scratch the surface a little bit and dig a little deeper to understand the privacy implications of one app in particular \u2013 Instagram. Now, that our very own Big B, Mr. Amitabh Bachhan is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,32,285,164,41,92,158,60],"tags":[56,33,163,64,286,140,279,59,287,288,160,47,61,66,79,162,67,31],"class_list":["post-75688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-android","category-apple","category-applications","category-cyber-crime","category-facebook","category-google","category-location-tracking","category-smartphone","tag-android-security","tag-apple","tag-cyber-crime","tag-facebook-applications","tag-geolocation","tag-identity-theft","tag-instagram","tag-mobile-devices","tag-photo-map","tag-photo-sharing-risks","tag-privacy","tag-security","tag-smartphone-security","tag-social-network-privacy","tag-social-networking-advice","tag-spam","tag-third-party-apps","tag-twitter"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickheal.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}