How Facebook Could Use Giphy to Collect Your Data

Giphy joins Facebook’s data collection arsenal

Owen Williams
OneZero
Published in
3 min readMay 15, 2020

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Image: Giphy

Facebook announced on Friday that it will buy Giphy, a popular GIF search engine and hosting service, for a reported $400 million.

Though the announcement highlighted plans to integrate Giphy’s GIF library into Instagram, the acquisition will likely also benefit all of…

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Owen Williams
OneZero

Fascinated by how code and design is shaping the world. I write about the why behind tech news. Design Manager in Tech. https://twitter.com/ow