Instagram draws ire over new user rules

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Irate customers blast the photo-sharing service's new terms of service, which appeared to give the company the right to turn users' images into ads.

Instagram founder Kevin Systrom, seen above at a technology conference in France this month, tried to calm the uproar caused by the firm's new terms of service. “Instagram does not claim any ownership rights over your photos,” he wrote in a blog post Tuesday afternoon. “We respect that your photos are your photos. Period.” (Eric Piermont, AFP/Getty Images / December 5, 2012)

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