Instagram to Stop Collecting Your Data: Here's How

Producer: Priyanka Das Editor: Sujata Singh

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These features are available within Instagram's Accounts Center.

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Basically Meta now gives users the power to decide how their data is used by other apps.

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Users can also review how the websites access their data and use it.

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These tools have helped Meta push personalised apps based on user's web activity.

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Instagram also lets people transfer all their photos and videos to other services, which wasn't available before.

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The option is available to download for both Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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Instagram says it will continue to help users determine how their data is used for ads.

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