From CNET: A new app is looking to revive one of the creepiest Instagram's features and encouraging people to spy on their significant others through social media. Critics said the app's offerings make it resemble stalkerware.
In early October, Instagram killed off its "Following" tab, which told people what posts and accounts their friends were interacting with. It would let you know whose posts they liked, and comments they left on other people's feeds. The tab was widely regarded as a stalking tool.
Like Patrol, which quietly launched on the iOS Store in July, doesn't just want to bring back that social media surveillance, it wants to amplify it. "Think the defunct 'Following' Tab, on steroids," Sergio Luis Quintero, the app's founder, said in an email.
It won't be around much longer. Instagram said Like Patrol's developers were violating its rules and has sent a cease-and-desist letter to the company. The Facebook-owned social network has frequently dealt with third-parties scraping people's data without their consent.
"Scraping violates our policies and we take action against companies who we find to be engaging in it. Like Patrol was scraping people's data so we are taking appropriate enforcement action against them," a Facebook spokesperson said.
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