Facebook has faced a great reaction recently for not preventing the sharing of false and harmful information on the internet, as well as for violating the privacy of its users’ personal data. However, these reactions do not prevent the company from going one step further at a time.
According to newly obtained information, personal information of iPhone users is secretly recorded. This personal information is not limited to the information shared on the platform and cannot be prevented without deleting the application.
Facebook can record your location and what you do at any time of the day:
We know that Facebook can determine your location using the meta-data in photos and your IP address. In the information that appeared recently, it was explained that even if you go to the settings and mark the location tracking as “never”, Facebook tracks your location. But now, it has been learned that Facebook has gone even further.
Using the “acceleration sensor” on iPhone devices, Facebook can continuously track location at any time of the day. In addition to tracking your heart rhythm, places and activities during the day, it can collect data from people near you and compare it with yours. For example, when one of the passengers on the bus you are on shares their location via Facebook, Facebook can detect your location as the vibration field of your phone is the same.
Claiming that it uses the acceleration sensor for certain camera features and the ‘shake to report’ feature, Facebook does not make an explanation as to why the location is constantly tracked even when the camera is not used.
Experts state that the only way to avoid this situation, which disregards personal privacy, is to delete the application, even if you tick options such as “never” and “I do not allow”. Apple has taken effective steps this year in the name of user privacy and transparency, such as ‘Transparency in Application Tracking’. It seems that Apple will have to take another step to avoid Facebook’s obsession with data collection.
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