The Facebook for Android introduced a setting that allows you to restrict application access to the location where it is not running. CNBC recently just foundThat Facebook's security team uses the background information about the geolocation to find people who may threaten the company's employees.
On Android, you can either completely block the application to track your location, or to grant full access to it. This is a feature of the operating system: you can not choose what specific situations or that the program can use the data about where you are.
Facebook claims that had not tracked location Android-users in the background, if they have not been enabled "Journal of geodata". But now the application has a special switch that allows you to completely disable shadowing. In the near future it will be available to all users.
The Facebook app for iOS option to disable access to the location in the past has been the background. The company intends to distribute to users of both mobile OS message with the request to check the settings geolocation.
Fortunately, in the near future, Google can solve the problem. according to leakIn the next version of Android, users can allow applications to use location data only when the program is running.
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