Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is investigating Facebook-owned Instagram over its practices in handling personal data of children on the platform. According to the complaints received by the regulator, Instagram allows users to easily change their personal accounts to business accounts, which in turn exposed their email address and contact information.
Instagram, however, has changed its approach with business accounts since then and it now requires users to opt-in for revealing their contact information. If the regulator is satisfied with the proposed privacy concerns, it has the power to levy fines up to 4 percent of the brand’s global revenue or up to 20 million euros.
