Facebook sends legal warning to developer who made an Instagram location-tracking app to demonstrate data issues

, built by the developer Erick Barto, is a service that monitors the locations of people you follow on Instagram. It does so by keeping an ongoing record of where your connections tagged their posts and stories. By recording this data over time, the app is able to build a detailed map of people's movements.

"If [Facebook and other platforms] found a way to provide developers access to use some data without the ability to centralize it , like Who's in Town does, it would allow for great products to be built in a safe way. But the first step towards that would have to be shutting down the backdoors used by hundreds of unauthorized [developers] today," Barto added.

It's not clear why Instagram, if it believes Who's in Town is in violation its policies, waited almost a month to send it a cease-and-desist letter. Failing to provide a publicly accessible privacy policy that informs users of what you collect and how the information will be used. Have stopped and will not in the future collect, offer, transfer, market, offer to sell any data or services related to Facebook and Instagram;

Will account for and disgorge any and all revenue earned from Your unauthorized activities related to Facebook; andAlong with your response, you must provide the following information:

Facebook is admitting guilt, developers couldn't do this if the data wasn't exposed in the first place.

Facebook should cease-and-desist.

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