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Kentucky’s top prosecutor demands changes to online privacy protections

By Alan Lytle

August 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM EDT

Attorney General Russell Coleman signed a letter to Instagram Head Adam Mosseri, where 37 other attorneys general raised concerns over the app’s new location-sharing feature.

“This is about our kids,” Coleman said in a release. “Without proper controls on this new feature, sexual predators are easily able to identify and geographically target our kids.

The full letter, available here, calls on the Meta-owned app to disable the feature for minors, send an alert outlining the risks of location-sharing, disclose how Instagram will use locations, and add an easy option to disable the feature at any time.

Instagram has not yet sent a formal response to the letter.