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hello and welcome to inside scoop I'm Sumi das and joining me is Josh Lowensohn senior writer for seen it Josh thanks for being with us my pleasure so I've actually been talking all day about Instagram basically they've backtracked here right they changed their policies and now they're saying no that's not what we're going to do after all sure so the controversy yesterday was all about who owns your photos and where those photos are showing up people were worried they were going to be sold yeah I mean a big thing that people worried about is this is that photo of my kid or my friend or wherever I am gonna get used in an advertisement without my permission and rightfully so yeah I think we are in the world of Twitter and Facebook and Instagram where we're putting out content and other companies are making money off it so this is a classic case where something like photos which can be a really lucrative industry for photographers but also a big privacy issue for people like parents kind of converge so it's this perfect storm okay so everybody was up in arms and then just this afternoon on tuesday what happened kevin psystorm issued a blog post at your bed I mean this is a co-founder of Instagram basically saying just kidding we're gonna make some changes so there's two real things happening the first one is that they said no you own your photos that's not going to change we have no you know no big i grand ideas of selling these photos is a stock service and the other thing they did was they basically said that anything that you posted wasn't going to show up on an ad that wasn't really there idea but they weren't really specific about how that's going to happen right they use some language about experimenting with advertising in a way that's appropriate on Instagram I mean that's really open to interpretation and could mean any number of things sure the big takeaway is that that photo you took on your vacation isn't going to show up on some ad without you knowing or without you're getting paid for it but they did kind of hint that there would be a way for someone like a celebrity or a brand to kind of get their photos in front of more people and more users something like we saw with twitter with their promoted tweets right right right right and we've seen that on facebook as well yeah i mean it's it's the big stories these companies really trying to grapple with these free services that a lot of people are using but might be really hard to ties okay so there are going to be some revised terms of service but we're probably not going to see them in the next 24 hours yeah I mean they said that some more changes are coming and they still have time to update that the big kind of deadline that's looming is these 30 days when these are up it's mid-january really for when these go into effect so there's still some time for things to move around okay the blog post also mentioned something about privacy options and what is that about sure I mean one of the big concerns are people have private accounts these are people are taking photos but they're only sharing them with a limited group of people it's not public there was some kind of questions based on the way they worded the new privacy terms on who gets to see that and what happens to that content and today that the company basically said no of those are still private and it'll always be private we want you to share anything you want but to who you want okay so that was basically another reassurance yeah I mean the whole thing about this letter was them saying you know what legal terms are sticky we kind of messed up without saying that explicitly ok got it well thank you for breaking down that legalese for sure for inside scoop I'm sumedh us see you next time