With the focus on data privacy increasing by the day, a new report has revealed that photo-sharing platform Instagram is capable of tracking its users's actions, text choices and even passwords and confidential credit card information, if they visit a link inside the app. 

The analysis conducted by Felix Krause found that both Instagram and Facebook on iOS use their own in-app browser rather than the one offered by Apple for third-party apps.

Most apps use Apple's Safari for loading websites, but Instagram and Facebook have been using their own in-app browser to load websites within the app, reports MacRumors.