Facebook. 2018 is ending as badly as it has gone so far, at least for the American company, and this is because it is mentioned in a new scandal that shows us how it monitors our lives. More precisely, those from Facebook continue to spy on people who deactivate the application's access to the phones' GPS, and of course no one knew that this was happening, although when it comes to this company, we have to expect anything.
Facebook. Even if it does not have access to GPS data from phones, the American company uses IP to determine the user's location, showing him specific ads for the area in which he is located. This was discovered by a USC university professor in the USA, the analysis being done after he discovered that Facebook was still showing him ads based on his location, even though he had disabled GPS access for the American company's application.
Facebook. BEWARE, HOW IT SPIES ON YOU WITHOUT YOU KNOWING
Facebook. Apart from IP, the address with which we are identified on the Internet, the company's applications would also use data taken from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections to display specific advertisements for certain geographical areas. The worst part is that users who use Facebook applications have no method to stop this spying, so the only solution is to get used to the fact that it happens, or to give up the platform completely.
Facebook. The company mentions somewhere in the documentation for displaying ads that it can also use an IP, or information taken from Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections to display ads, but the information is not easy to discover. For many, this is a serious privacy issue, while for others it matters less, but Facebook will have to explain again why it has such practices, which are not exactly transparent.
