LONDON – Irish privacy regulators have opened two investigations into Instagram over the social media site's handling of young people's personal data.
Ireland's Data Protection Commission said it launched the investigations in September after receiving complaints about the company.
Facebook, which owns Instagram, said it's in “close contact” with the commission and is "cooperating with their inquiries.” The investigations were first reported late Sunday by Britain's Daily Telegraph newspaper, which said they came after a U.S.
data scientist aired concerns that Instagram made public the email addresses and phone numbers of people under 18. The minimum age to use Instagram is 13.