An-Najah News - Brittany Conditi, an Instagram user from New Jeresy, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook.

Conditi accused the latter of spying on its users and illegally accessing their mobile cameras while using the Instagram app.

“By obtaining extremely private and intimate personal data on their users, including in the privacy of their own homes.

The lawsuit acsuded the photo-sharing app appeared to be acces iPhone cameras even when they weren’t actively being used.

In a suit filed last month, Facebook was also accused of using facial-recognition technology to illegally harvest the biometric data of its more than 100 million Instagram users.

 Facebook denied the claim and said that Instagram doesn’t use face recognition technology.