Facebook will know where you are with Instagram location history

Surprise, surprise. Who would have imagined that the purchase of Instagram by Facebook would mean greater control of user data. It happened 6 years ago. Mark Zuckerberg's emporium decided to buy a pre-Stories Instagram for an amount of one billion dollars (about 868,400,000 euros today, in exchange). It coincided in time with the expansion to Android of an application, Instagram, which already gave enough to talk about on iPhone phones.It was an application that brought together, in the same place, photography lovers and various narcissists who found their place of comfort in it. A kind of Fotolog (those wonderful years) with no limit on image uploads and with preset filters that made us all look much more beautiful.

Facebook and its desire to know where you are going

The years go by, the Stories arrive (Goodbye Snapchat?) and while Facebook suffers controversy and more controversy about the leaking of user data to alter the order of history (democratic elections in the United States United Through), Instagram seems oblivious to any controversy. And it will not be because we do not leave our life in it, showing tastes, concerns and, of course, the place where we are. Now, just after the creators of Instagram alighted from their original project, leaving the creature at the mercy of the powerful hands of Mark Zuckerberg, the alarm is raised.The tycoon will be able to make whatever changes he wants with virtually no opposition.

Location History, new Instagram function

And precisely these movements are beginning to be seen. From now on, Instagram will have, within your privacy settings, your own location history and guess who you can share it with? Indeed, with Facebook. Thanks to this, Zuckerberg's social network will be able to know where you are, even if you are not using Instagram at that moment, being able to send you personalized ads depending on your location. At the moment, this new configuration is being tested Those who have appeared on their Instagram state that their name is 'Location History'. According to the explanation that appears on Instagram, this new setting « Allows Facebook products, including Instagram and Messenger, to create and use a history of precise locations, received through the location services of your device ».And then comes the good news « Facebook will periodically add your current exact location to your location history, even if you leave the app «.

Of course, this function can be deactivated whenever you want. When turned off, Facebook will stop adding new information to Location History. However, Facebook, by itself, can continue to obtain information about the place where you are, whenever you put it in your written posts In addition, another of the characteristics of this new 'Location History' is that it will have to be activated for another function to be effective, that of locating friends near you.

When we have this function active in our applications we will give a good account of it in these same pages and we will publish a complete tutorial so that the user can If you wish, you can deactivate it conveniently.

Via | Phone Arena