Prevent Instagram From Gathering Your Private Information

Good news for Instagram users, parent company Meta has released a new feature called Activity Off-Meta Technologies that allows users to prevent Instagram from collecting their data about the apps and websites they visit.

“We’re moving a number of additional controls to Account Center to make it easier to manage your data in our apps,” Robert d’Apice, director of product management at Meta, said in a blog post.

According to the social media giant, the Activity Off-Meta Technologies feature, formerly known as Off-Facebook Activity, and Transfer Your Information are now working on Instagram, and you can now find the feature in the platform’s account center.

Activity Off-Meta Technologies allows you to control how information sent by other companies to Metal is connected to your Facebook and Instagram accounts. You can easily review the companies that share data with Meta, disconnect specific companies to further personalize your experience, or clear this data entirely.

Meta receives information from third-party websites that use its business tools, such as the Meta Pixel, which tracks users online and allows Meta to display personalized ads on its platforms.

Instagram now allows you to transfer all your Instagram photos and videos to other services, making sharing and saving memories much easier. This is a big step forward in data portability.

“Upload your data” and “Use your data” are also now centralized in the account center, and you can now upload data from both your Facebook and Instagram accounts at the same time.

For example, you might want to upload images you’ve uploaded to both platforms – now you can with one action. Or you can still download your data for Facebook and Instagram separately.

“We continue to look for ways to make it easier for people to customize and interact with our apps and technologies,” the company said.