The famous application that allows you to put filters on your photos and share them with your contacts through social networks has undergone a very important change in its terms and conditions. Instagram now has the right to sell your photos without obligation to notify you or without you receiving any money in return. The turn in the direction of its policy has arrived today and It will go into effect on January 16.
This change comes three months after Facebook's purchase is complete and after some statements from their Vice President of Global Marketing Solutions announced that monetizing the service was a goal but they were still thinking about how to do it.
The only way you have to keep your photos private is delete your account before the deadline above. In point 1 of the company's rights section in the new Terms of Use our indicate that ownership of the photos and our data remains ours, and that within the network, we decide who can see them or not. But the conflictive point is point 2, which it says according to the translation I make from English.
-Some of the contents of the Service may be supported by advertising benefits. To help us create interesting content or paid or sponsored promotions, you allow a company or entity to pay us to put your username, your likes, your photos (as well as any associated metadata) and / or your actions, in connection with any paid or sponsored content or promotion, without any compensation to you.
In point three they also tell us that they are not obliged to tell us what those paid or sponsored services are, so the door is open to sell any type of content of ours.
It was thought that Facebook would come up with other ways to take advantage of Instagram such as advertising or charging third parties for the integration. Those options seemed unfeasible, as did charging users. This final option has not been liked at all by consumers and many people are unsubscribing. There are even those who are downloading all their photos and then deleting their account. If you want to do it you can use Instaport to download it to another social network or to your hard drive. You can also use this Instagram downloader from the prestigious CNET magazine. How could it be otherwise, social networks burn with the issue. If you want a similar or even better service, we recommend Snapseed.
Source: Instagram