A few weeks ago, the world almost went mad when reports appeared that Facebook Messenger is constantly watching you. This was stated journalists, hackers and ordinary users, because the messenger was permission to use your camera, tracking your location and reading text messages.
This myth was eventually debunked. If the application is possible to perform such actions, it does not mean that it is doing this 24 hours a day. Such requests for tracking your location, access the camera or text messages you can find in many applications. The problem arose because Android and iOS are not particularly control the process. Developers simply asked, "authorize or not," - and have access to information.
In iOS 8, Apple offered three options for tracking geopozitsii: Always, Never, or while using an application. Facebook representatives have already stated that in iOS 8 Messenger and Instagram will access geopozitsii only while using the app. This means that applications can not access this information, if they are not open.
And if anyone will now be argued, as did some journalists a few weeks ago that Facebook Messenger is constantly watching over you, tell it to the application settings.
"We will never collect data about your location in the background, even if the device allowed us to do this" - said Yul Kwon, on Facebook Privacy Manager. "Even if we do not use all of these features, people find it difficult to explain it, so that we only welcome this detailed setting".
Setting "Always" in the main Facebook app on iOS 8 is required for the new features Nearby Friends, which allows you to find friends who are far away from you. If tracking your geopozitsii it will be transferred to the "While using the application" mode, this function will not work.
Apple brought a fine example of the settings of your monitor geopozitsii, but to completely reassure users should make the same points, and camera control. Otherwise, how can we be sure that Facebook does not make photos, as we sit in the toilet? Yes, it may sound funny, but it is very concerned about the many users. With the help of Apple and Google more specific settings again to save people from certain fears and reduce the amount of misinformation.
Apple should find a middle ground between a large number of settings that can be confusing user, and minimalism, which, according to the owners of devices gives too much power to the various applications. Otherwise, users will continue to accuse some services in surveillance and will be afraid to use certain applications.