[m4tthumphrey]

Is this something you would actually expect from a media sharing/storage site?

[ben509]

Not wanting data shared seems to contradict the mission of a site that shares data.

[jermier]

So what if someone sleuths around in the e-waste dept. of Instagram and steals a few hard-drives with literally Terabytes of potentially very sensitive data? That's why I would hope Instagram are encrypting data at rest with something like LUKS.

[murftown]

Yes.