Instagram Privacy

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Instagram Privacy
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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Discussion..................................................................................................................................2
Importance of Instagram Privacy...........................................................................................2
Risks or Issues Related to Privacy in Instagram....................................................................3
Mitigation Strategies for Privacy Issues in Instagram...........................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
Information security can be stated as the core practice to prevent any kind of
unauthorized or unauthenticated access, modification, disruption, disclosure, inspection,
destruction and even recording of relevant information (Von Solms and Van Niekerk 2013).
These data and information might undertake any of the significant form of being physical or
electronic. This type of information security is only possible when the specific network of the
user is being protected from unauthenticated usability. It is the core activity that is being
designed for protection of network integrity. This type of activity is vital for social
networking sites. Instagram is one of the most popular and significant social networking sites
in today’s world that helps users to connect with each other (Crossler et al. 2013). The
following report outlines a brief discussion on the privacy and security issues in Instagram as
well as procedure of maintaining this type of security.
Discussion
Importance of Instagram Privacy
Instagram is a photo as well as video sharing social networking service that is owned
by Facebook. This particular service was created in the year of 2010 and was mainly
followed by a feature restricted website interface in the year of 2012 (Peltier 2013).
Instagram is responsible for allowing users to upload the photos and videos to that service
that could be edited with the help of several filters and could even be organized with location
information and tags. The posts of the account of a user could be shared either publicly or
even with the previously approved followers. These users could even browse the contents of
other users’ content by locations and tags and view the trending content. They can like the
photos and can also follow other users for adding the content to feed.