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Instagram to start paying researchers to find apps abusing its data

This is after the company found several hackers abusing data.
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Instagram to start paying researchers to find apps abusing its data
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"Our goal is to help protect the information people share on Instagram and encourage security researchers to report potential abuse to us so we can quickly take action." Read more here.

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