This Stalking App Harvests All Your Activities On Instagram, Even Your Friends!

Stalking is always one amongst most long-time, controversial debates between stalkers and those who never stalk others. Whatever type it is – parent checking or eyeing on ex – stalkers appear to frighten their victims with a slew of tools out there. For your information, Like Patrol is an example. The app has been designed to scrape data from Instagram, therefore users will be able to track whom their targets interact. As per CNET, Instagram already issued a cease and desist letter to the publisher of the app due to its misbehavior of scraping Instagram’s rules. This move is expected to prevent it from harvesting data, as well as force it to be shut down as soon as possible.

Now we’re gonna shed light on how Like Patrol has gained its notorious fame since its initial launch in July. With a total of around 300 people who have signed up for a pay subscription, the app collects $2.99 per week from a user and the number is $80 for a year plan. Once users pass through the registration, they now boast the ability to know exactly what a specific Instagram account had done on the social network. Like Patrol then sends them all data about every ‘like’ or comment authored by the target. It becomes a lot more creepy when unveiling details of the user whom their target interacts with, including gender and even his/her attractiveness.

At the very beginning, the app magnetized such information from the former “Following” tab inside Instagram. The photo-sharing app later closed the tab, so Like Patrol has gone a long way in making alternative algorithms to regain the data. Needless to say, breaking up the privacy of the others seems creepy. For now, Instagram deserves many thanks!