Privacy and safety risks are cited in a letter to the leader of Instagram penned by attorneys general from New Mexico and Georgia and joined by North Carolina’s Jeff Jackson.
Thirty-seven states are represented in the call to protect children.
“Our children’s safety comes first,” said North Carolina Attornry General Jeff Jackson, a first-term Democrat in the office and former member of the U.S. House of Representatives. “Instagram needs to do some clean up on its location-sharing feature so we can keep children and victims safe – and it needs to do so now.”
Instagram introduced a new feature allowing “users’ precise real-time locations to be displayed on a map,” a release from New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez says. He added it “poses significant privacy and safety risks – especially for vulnerable groups, including children and survivors of domestic violence.”
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Author: Ray Hilbrich
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