Have you been asked for your photo ID on Instagram? If so, your not alone. Last week various users on Instagram reported to be locked out of their photo sharing app.
On January 19, Instagram introduced a new terms of service which CNET first discovered on Tuesday.
Users were first worried that their accounts had been hacked. However on Friday, Talking Points Memo confirmed that the ID requests on Instagram (which is now owned by Facebook) were legitimate.
A Facebook spokesperson told Talking Points Memo “this is just a general practice for both Facebook and Instagram to request photo IDs for verification purposes depending on what type of violation may have occurred”… “Unfortunately, I can’t share more with you beyond that as we don’t go into details beyond that.”
Facebook declined to state exactly why a number of users would collectively receive notifications to provide government issued IDs last week or what specific violations had occurred.
Instagram’s has the right to “refuse access to the Service to anyone for any reason at any time” according to the terms of service.
What do you think of these recent developments? Will you still be using Instagram?
SO! What? SOcial 
Is this like back in the day, when we were all asked to provide photo ID to go in certain venues? I didn´t like it back then.
Its too much! Where has our privacy gone and where is it going? It makes me wonder what is next?!
I think users will have a great input in shaping things up in the near future.
No one is going to leave Instagram just like they did when they changed their terms of service people just fronting
I deleted my account when they changed their terms of service. I think privacy is getting lost in the world of social media.
You should check out my site I posted a video about the Instagram changes and how they misguided the people to what they was really doing
Will do! Thanks 🙂