While Facebook is getting closer to realizing its acquisition of Instagram, its heartening to see that the two companies aren’t already merging privacy policies. Instagram today rolled out an update to its popular photo sharing app which includes a new Geo-tagging feature called ‘Photomaps’ which allows you to pin your photos on a map. Understandably, a few users are upset and concerned that photographs geo-tagged at their residence can make their address public. However, Instragram has been more discerning as its CEO Kevin Systrom points out, “We take privacy very seriously and have gone to extra lengths to make it clear how the feature works and give control of data directly to users.” Unlike Facebook that requires you to opt-out of its actions, Instragram requires at the outset that you opt-in for sharing your photos on a map. And even after having opt-in, users have three ways to deselect photos from being shared on a map:
1. You can choose ‘deselect all’ to not share any photograph on a map
2. You can individually deselect photos with a tap
3. You can deselect photos grouped into a geo-tagged section - use this to un-tag photos that give out your address.
The downside currently is that once a photo has been deselected, there is no option to add it back to the map later.
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