Facebook Inc. is being sued again for allegedly spying on its Instagram users, this time through the unauthorized use of their cell phone cameras.

The lawsuit alleges that the photo / video sharing app appeared to be using iPhone cameras even when they are not being actively used.

Facebook denied the reports and blamed a flaw, which it said it was correcting, for causing what the company described as "fake reports" that Instagram was using iPhone cameras.

In the complaint filed Thursday in federal court in San Francisco, Instagram user from New Jersey Brittany Conditi claims that the use of the camera by the application is intentional and is done for the purpose of collecting "profitable and valuable data for its users, to whom otherwise, the company would not have access (access), "

By "taking extremely private and intimate personal data about their users, including the privacy of their own homes", Instagram and Facebook are able to gather "valuable data and do proper market research", according to the article in denunciation.

Facebook declined to comment on the incident.

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

Facebook denied the claim and said Instagram does not use face recognition technology.

Source: Bloomberg Business