New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, joined by 35 other states, today sent a letter to Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, expressing serious concerns about the platform’s new location-sharing feature. This feature, which allows users’ precise real-time locations to be displayed on a map, poses significant privacy and safety risks—especially for vulnerable groups, including children and survivors of domestic violence.

“Instagram is once again prioritizing engagement over safety and has enabled a potentially dangerous feature without first ensuring the safety of their users, especially kids. It is absolutely stunning that the company would allow children on the platform to enable a feature which would provide predators with even more information to target and abuse them. We are calling on Instagram to limit this feature to adult users only and to provide them with a clear explanation of how the data will be used and by whom, and an easy way to disable the feature should they choose to do so in the future.” – AG Torrez