Instagram Reminds Users that New Policies Go In Effect January 19th

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There was furor in December when Instragram revealed that the popular photo sharing site (and now Facebook property) had updated its terms of service. Included in the updates was language that gave the service permission to use your uploaded photos in ads that your friends saw, and other uses that quickly had users both screaming and jumping off of the service.

A week later, the company reversed course on the advertising section, and reverted back to its original user agreement.

Today, an email sent to all Instagram users advises that "Our community has grown by many millions of people since we wrote our original Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. As we announced in December, we have updated our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. These policies also now take into account the feedback we received from the Instagram Community. We're emailing you to remind you that, as we announced last month, these updated policies will be in effect as of January 19th, 2013.

You can read our blog post that highlights some of the key updates. And remember, these updates don't change the fact that you own your photos that you post on Instagram, and our privacy controls work just as they did before.

Thank you,
The Instagram Team"

Good luck to all.