Instagram’s new location-sharing update is raising privacy concerns, with users reporting their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the update is opt-in.
Experts warn that location-sharing features are linked to a higher risk of tech-based coercive control.
The controversy follows other recent privacy issues for Meta, including a lawsuit over the misuse of sensitive health data from a women’s health tracking app.
Why are people giving any Meta app Location Permissions? …or even installing that shit to begin with?
nobody needs to install it nowadays, because it comes preinstalled on all phones. and lots of people just mindlessly allow every kind of permission
And all their friends and crushes use it.
Is it really preinstalled on all phones? Not on iphones and neither on my Samsung S22 or my Pixels.
Just got samsung phone and FB was preinstalled. You will probably be pissed the next time you get a phone.
Android is the devil when it comes to it. My S22+ certainly did have “Meta App Manager” and “Meta Package Installer” hidden as system services, which could only be removed using ADB.
That’s because they’re both flagship phones, budget phones have a ton of bloatware installed on them (including cheaper Samsung phones)
Can confirm I had to remove “Meta App Manager” off my old S22+ as of ~6 months ago
maybe flagship phones are different, but I don’t think I ever had such a device in my hands. I regularly help people with affordable phones, and as far as I can tell each had them preinstalled