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If you’re an Android user, Facebook might be tracking your place even when you’re not utilizing the app. But now there’s a method to stop the business from doing so.
The world’s biggest social media, under pressure to deal with personal privacy issues, stated it was launching a brand-new tool that lets Android users manage whether the business tracks their place when they’re not utilizing the Facebook app. That function is currently offered for users who access the Facebook app on an iPhone.
Before, Android users had just one setting that enabled Facebook to track their place, or not. Unless they turned the tracking off, the social media had the ability to access their location.
Facebook presented a brand-new background place setting on Wednesday.
Now Facebook is presenting another choice: Users can let Facebook track place just when they’re utilizing the app.
The social media utilizes place information to reveal individuals close-by good friends and occasions, however it likewise utilizes the information to feed targeted advertisements.
Facebook has actually been slammed prior to for the information it gathers from Android phones. In May, a Facebook user took legal action against the social media for apparently gathering info on calls and text on Android phones.
The social media states it looks out users who utilize the app on Android phones about the brand-new function, through Facebook.
The business states that with the upgrade, it’s not gathering any brand-new info or altering the options a user formerly made.
You can learn if Facebook is tracking your place by going to the social media’s settings. There’s an area for personal privacy that consists of an alternative to handle your place setting
