Instagram

What you type is a fraction of the profile: off-platform activity reports back and inferred attributes fill in the rest, held with no fixed end. Deleting the profile is account closure under another name, and a suspended account's identifiers can stay indefinitely.

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ID verification

Instagram routes identity checks to:

• Yoti DIGITAL ID PLATFORM THEIR STATED RETENTION Until the user deletes the account; inactive accounts deleted after 3 years. Per Spain's AEPD (March 2026): geolocation was kept 5 years, found excessive and fined; liveness videos 30 days.

Provider terms from their published policies, read August 2026.

Self-serve privacy tools are available on their site.

DÆTRAX is a personal data accountability ledger: a dated record of which companies hold your personal data, what you asked them to do about it, and what they claimed in reply. Track Instagram on your record →