ST PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison is joining a bipartisan coalition of colleagues in urging Instagram to make immediate changes to its new location-sharing feature, technology they say puts vulnerable users in danger.

In a letter to Instagram head Adam Mosseri, the group of 37 attorneys general outlines what they see as serious public safety and data privacy concerns about Instagram Map, which allows the precise location of a user to be displayed. The coalition says that it presents heightened danger for children, survivors of domestic violence and those with no-contact orders, among others, allowing predators, stalkers and "other malicious actors" to find them.

The letter calls on Instagram to:

“It’s astonishing that one of the largest social media platforms on

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