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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Instagram running ads promoting child sexual abuse material in India, BBC finds (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 17 hours ago by babysmokesalot@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mineralman@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 hours ago

Ads on Instagram are only published after first being approved by its moderation technology... When the BBC reported one of the ads to Instagram, the social media platform responded 24 hours later saying the post did not violate its "community guidelines".

Makes the mass layoffs in the tech sector all the more galling.