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Instagram is testing the ability to share your precise location history with Facebook

Instagram is currently testing a feature that would allow it to share your location data with Facebook, even when youre not using the app, reports app researcher Jane Manchun Wong (via TechCrunch). The option, which Wong notes is being tested as a setting you have to opt-in to, allows Facebook products to build and use a history of precise locations which the company says helps you explore whats around you, get more relevant ads and helps improve Facebook. When activated, the service will report your location even if you leave the app.

The discovery of the feature comes just weeks after Instagrams co-founders resigned from the company, reportedly as a result of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbergs meddling in the service. Examples of this meddling include removing Instagrams attribution from posts re-shared to Facebook, and badged notifications inside Instagram that encouraged people to open the Facebook app. With the two men who were deeply involved in the day-to-day running of Instagram now gone, such intrusions are expected to increase.

source/more reading:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/5/17940364/instagram-location-sharing-data-sharing-facebook-test

Are you glad Facebook was able to acquire Instagram? Should the government break the two apart? Do you want Instagram to work seamlessly with Facebook?
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Don't care doesn't matter.
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Ummmm, if you have a problem with Facebook/Instagram/MarkZuckerberg, then don't use their platform.

Go back to Myspace or make the next Facebook, up to you.
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EpicKingdom_ posted...

if you have a problem with Facebook/Instagram/MarkZuckerberg, then don't use their platform.

I dont maintain personal accounts on either service.

Though based on this & the go back to MySpace quip Im guessing you dont think its fair for people to criticize a company while still using their service which I disagree with entirely.
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EpicKingdom_ posted...

Ummmm, if you have a problem with Facebook/Instagram/MarkZuckerberg, then don't use their platform.

Go back to Myspace or make the next Facebook, up to you.

Facebook data collects your information even if you never agree to use the app
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Why is everyone so freaked about being checked out ?

Is everyone around here a drug runner or body runner or some shit ?
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Why is everyone so freaked about being checked out ?

Is everyone around here a drug runner or body runner or some shit ?

They don't want Facebook to known they barely ever leave their parents basement.
Also, paranoia.
I don't care that it known when I'm home and then at work and groceries and home again, or when I'm going out with friends or visiting out of town relatives.
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Burgess posted...

Don't care doesn't matter.

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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Why is everyone so freaked about being checked out ?

Is everyone around here a drug runner or body runner or some shit ?

You don't have to be a drug runner.

Here's a good example of how location data and location data retention can be horrible bad for someone with nothing to hide:

1. Innocent person is in a specific area at a certain time.
2. Tech company passively pings location and stores it on their servers.
3. Another person is murdered in the area at this same time.
4. Location data is requested by government authorities from tech companies that have location data in the area.
5. Innocent person becomes a prime suspect involving a serious crime.
6. Real criminal understood the weight of their crime (murder) and used .1% of their brainpower to decide not to bring a phone to the scene.
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Whats going on in China right now is a perfect reason for no one to have so much data on you. But hey, keep saying it cant happen.
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HydraSlayer82 posted...

Whats going on in China right now is a perfect reason for no one to have so much data on you. But hey, keep saying it cant happen.

Yeah, their social credit scoring stuff is really concerning. Even more concerning is how they've used technology to turn cities populated by minorities into police states or free roam prisons.

It's become so bad the US is accepting refugees from the area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViswN602_k" data-time="
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Google already tracks your location with Google Maps so...

Kombucha posted...

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Why is everyone so freaked about being checked out ?

Is everyone around here a drug runner or body runner or some shit ?

You don't have to be a drug runner.

Here's a good example of how location data and location data retention can be horrible for someone with nothing to hide:

1. Innocent person is in a specific area at a certain time.
2. Tech company passively pings location and stores it on their servers.
3. Another person is murdered in the area at this same time.
4. Location data is requested by government authorities from tech companies that have location data in the area.
5. Innocent person becomes a prime suspect involving a serious crime.
6. Real criminal understood the weight of their crime (murder) and used .1% of their brainpower to decide not to bring a phone to the scene.

This is just one example of a nearly infinite amount of possible problems with the practice.

All they know is what hubcaps I bought for my car.

What beer or booze I'm drinking that night.

If someone gives bad news I try to give something motivational to the best of my ability.

If someone one gives good news I'll wish them the best.

I don't post stuff like killing people, terrorism, drug dealing, or smuggling people into the country.
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cellb posted...

Google already tracks your location with Google Maps so...

The only time any location service is used on my phone is when I'm actively using GPS. I don't use Google Maps/Waze, I use Open Street Map. Otherwise, location services stays off. It's a waste of phone battery to leave it on all the time anyways.
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PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Kombucha posted...

PrettyBoyFloyd posted...

Why is everyone so freaked about being checked out ?

Is everyone around here a drug runner or body runner or some shit ?

You don't have to be a drug runner.

Here's a good example of how location data and location data retention can be horrible for someone with nothing to hide:

1. Innocent person is in a specific area at a certain time.
2. Tech company passively pings location and stores it on their servers.
3. Another person is murdered in the area at this same time.
4. Location data is requested by government authorities from tech companies that have location data in the area.
5. Innocent person becomes a prime suspect involving a serious crime.
6. Real criminal understood the weight of their crime (murder) and used .1% of their brainpower to decide not to bring a phone to the scene.

This is just one example of a nearly infinite amount of possible problems with the practice.

All they know is what hubcaps I bought for my car.

What beer or booze I'm drinking that night.

If someone gives bad news I try to give something motivational to the best of my ability.

If someone one gives good news I'll wish them the best.

I don't post stuff like killing people, terrorism, drug dealing, or smuggling people into the country.

What criminal would post about any of that stuff on social media?

Anyways I'll drop this here, as it's relatively recent and might help you understand where I'm coming from with this.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/19/17138846/google-police-location-data-crime-scenes

also relevant

https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/1/11824118/google-android-location-data-police-warrants
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Kombucha posted...

cellb posted...

Google already tracks your location with Google Maps so...

The only time any location service is used on my phone is when I'm actively using GPS. I don't use Google Maps/Waze, I use Open Street Map. Otherwise, location services stays off. It's a waste of phone battery to leave it on all the time anyways.

even when your GPS is off, Google still tracks your location.
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Ricemills posted...

Kombucha posted...

cellb posted...

Google already tracks your location with Google Maps so...

The only time any location service is used on my phone is when I'm actively using GPS. I don't use Google Maps/Waze, I use Open Street Map. Otherwise, location services stays off. It's a waste of phone battery to leave it on all the time anyways.

even when your GPS is off, Google still tracks your location.

I don't use an Android phone.

Shame though they can't just be up front with their users.
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Kombucha posted...

Ricemills posted...

Kombucha posted...

cellb posted...

Google already tracks your location with Google Maps so...

The only time any location service is used on my phone is when I'm actively using GPS. I don't use Google Maps/Waze, I use Open Street Map. Otherwise, location services stays off. It's a waste of phone battery to leave it on all the time anyways.

even when your GPS is off, Google still tracks your location.

I don't use an Android phone.

Shame though they can't just be up front with their users.

They probably are, but nobody reads the fine prints.
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stone posted...

Kombucha posted...

Ricemills posted...

Kombucha posted...

cellb posted...

Google already tracks your location with Google Maps so...

The only time any location service is used on my phone is when I'm actively using GPS. I don't use Google Maps/Waze, I use Open Street Map. Otherwise, location services stays off. It's a waste of phone battery to leave it on all the time anyways.

even when your GPS is off, Google still tracks your location.

I don't use an Android phone.

Shame though they can't just be up front with their users.

They probably are, but nobody reads the fine prints.

Its definitely not up front with consumers if they both turn off location history in their google account + disable location services and Google still does it. Even if it is buried somewhere in a privacy agreement lol, hopefully workable legislation comes about in the us as it has in the eu to address this.
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Now combine that with ethics with workers that may not different ethics from the objective and what they do with location info. What do we do.