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In-app features of a user account, such as publishing videos, sending messages, interacting with other accounts and even changing personal information. The issue was more likely to happen with Android users. Fortunately, TikTok has already fixed it and the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team has not identified any major exploitation. So, it is strongly recommended that users keep their app up to date, using the latest version of it. Instagram surfing TikTok’s wave… even on privacy issues Meta (formerly Facebook Inc.


) has not been left behind when it comes to privacy questions. Felix Krause found potential email list france issues within Instagram, quite similar to what happened with TikTok. Besides having an option to open links in the device default browser, Meta apps have their own browser, which is the first one to open the links inside the apps. Whenever you click on a link on Instagram, the app drives you to a page without having to open your smartphone browser. In this case, there is also a JavaScript code that is able to track user’s interactions on a third-party page, just like TikTok, but not so aggressively.



This code is able to track the interaction between the user and any link, button, image or UI element. According to Krause: “Meta claimed they only inject the script to respect the user’s ATT choice, and additional ‘security and user features’.” In this Instagram case, the harm caused may be less catastrophic than the one mentioned about TikTok. In spite of that, it does not mean that we can feel 100% safe while navigating a web page inside the app, since data might have been collected without us being aware.