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Location information makes it possible for people to use Facebook to plan events, see more relevant ads, mark themselves safe in a crisis and share their favorite places. In the blog post announcing the changes, Facebook points out that the collection of location data can be used for security purposes:
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iOS and Android users will also be prompted to check their location settings. For people who had turned Location History "off" - or never turned it on in the first place - the new background location setting is "off".Īnyone who has previously enabled Location History will be alerted to the new option in the Android app. With this update, you'll have a dedicated way to choose whether or not to share your location when you aren’t using the app.įor people who previously chose to turn their Location History setting "on", the new background location setting is "on". If you enabled this setting, two things happened: you would share your location when you weren't using the app and you would allow Facebook to store a history of your precise locations. Until today, people using these features were asked to enable Location History. For example, when people choose to use Nearby Friends, a feature that lets friends share their locations with each other, they give Facebook permission to access their location even when they're not using the app.
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Today we're introducing a new background location control on Facebook for Android so people can choose if they want us to collect location information when they're not using the app. In a blog post, Facebook's engineering director for location infrastructure, Paul McDonald, explains: In introducing the new finer-grained controls, Facebook insists that it is "not making any changes to the choices you've previously made nor are we collecting any new information". While iOS users have been afforded control over the background collection of location data for a while, until now Android users have been presented with the blunt tool of simply enabling or disabling location data completely.
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