Hyp3r, the ad start-up that was removed from Instagram for creating tools to collect public data from the photo app, is planning to meet with Facebook as soon as next week, a Hyp3r board member told investors on a call, which CNBC heard. According to a story published by Business Insider on Wednesday, Hyp3r was collecting user data in violation of Facebook's policies. Hyp3r was able to pull together information from user posts, profiles and locations that people visited, data that could then be used for targeted advertisements.

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Subscriber Account active since. A combination of configuration errors and lax oversight by Instagram allowed one of the social network's vetted advertising partners to misappropriate vast amounts of public user data and create detailed records of users' physical whereabouts, personal bios, and photos that were intended to vanish after 24 hours. The profiles, which were scraped and stitched together by the San Francisco-based marketing firm Hyp3r, were a clear violation of Instagram's rules. But it all occurred under Instagram's nose for the past year by a firm that Instagram had blessed as one of its preferred "Facebook Marketing Partners. On Wednesday, Instagram sent Hyp3r a cease-and-desist letter after being presented with Business Insider's findings and confirmed that the startup broke its rules. As a result, we've removed them from our platform.
Instagram has banned advertising partner Hyp3r for reportedly breaking the rules when it comes to the collection of user data. Facebook-owned Instagram sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company on Wednesday. The same firm has previously earned the accolade of being tagged as a valuable "Facebook Marketing Partner. Instagram, used for image sharing and messaging, confirmed findings of mass user data collection following an investigation by Business Insider.