Facebook for Android allows you to disable location tracking in the background

A new feature is coming to the Facebook app for Android. As of very soon, since screenshots have already been seen that attest to this, the user will be able to deactivate the location of the application in the background. It has been the company itself that has announced this decision through its official blog and it is one of its recent measures against the leaking of private data, in order to try to recover the credibility it lost with cases such as Cambridge Analytica.

You can deactivate location on Facebook even if you are not using the app

Prior to this new option, the Facebook app allowed users to turn location services on and off. If the application was not in use but you had the close friends option activated, this data continued to be stored even if you had it deactivated. The Facebook application knew, at all times, where your steps were going, by storing all your travel routes, due to the nearby friends function. Now, thanks to this new step, the user can be more calm about it.

If you want to see if you already have the function activated to be able to disable background location in your Facebook application, you must go to the menu with three lines and, then, to the 'Settings' section.Within the 'Privacy' section we will find the 'Location' section, which is what interests us. On this screen we will find the location history switch and, in addition, the new switch to disable geolocation in the background.

Surely Facebook should take many more steps to regain the trust of the user of its social network and not be left alone in deactivating location in the background. The issue of fake news, the purchase of personal data to influence user behavior on issues of vital importance and the whole issue related to hate speech are items that should be top of the agenda for such a powerful social network. like Facebook.