Author: Jacob Kastrenakes
Facebook is adding a new privacy control to its Android app today that allows users to prevent the social network from accessing their location when the app isn’t open. The update comes just days after CNBC reported that Facebook’s security team had used location information to track missing interns and users deemed to be threats.
Granting an Android app access to your location is an all-or-nothing deal: you either have to prevent the app from seeing your location at all, or you have to grant it full use of your location. That comes down to how Android works. Google requires that apps get permission to use your location, but it doesn’t offer options for when your location data can be used.
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Facebook is adding a new privacy control to its Android app today that allows users to prevent the social network from accessing their location when the app isn’t open. The update comes just days after CNBC reported that Facebook’s security team had used location information to track missing interns and users deemed to be threats.
Granting an Android app access to your location is an all-or-nothing deal: you either have to prevent the app from seeing your location at all, or you have to grant it full use of your location. That comes down to how Android works. Google requires that apps get permission to use your location, but it doesn’t offer options for when your location data can be used.
You can now limit Facebook to only accessing...
Continue reading…
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