Facebook, has very important news for all users Android from all over the world, a change expected by many people being finally offered, after a very long time of waiting, unfortunately. More precisely, starting today, Android phone users have the possibility to block GPS location monitoring when they are not using Facebook's application, which was a violation of privacy, but Americans don't really care.
Android did not, like iOS, have the possibility to block access to the GPS location when the Facebook application was not used by the user, but things have changed and everything has to do with something from last week. We told you then that Facebook tracks the GPS location of people it considers to be a "threat" to the company, or its employees, and this disclosure led to offering this function for Android.
Android now has the option to block Facebook's unwanted GPS tracking
Android has this function offered a few years after Facebook was forced by Apple to implement options in iOS for the GPS location to be accessed only when the application is actually used by the user, not all the time. Google's Android platform was a source of many abuses by Facebook, which did exactly what it wanted, but now, at least theoretically, users are beginning to have control over their privacy.
Facebook does not automatically activate this setting after installing the latest update for the application, but users must do it manually from the GPS location settings menu. The problem is that, just like in the past, Facebook cannot be believed without a doubt by anyone, because we are talking about a company that "lies as it breathes", and in the past it shamelessly lied to a lot of people, so why not would he do it even now?
If you use the Facebook application on Android phones, I recommend that you disable GPS monitoring when you are not using the application, and enjoy the improvement in battery life resulting from this action.
