In a few days, Facebook will end various location-related options.
This is particularly the case with the “Friends nearby” feature.
Facebook backtracks on geolocation between friends
You may not use it, but Facebook’s Friends Nearby feature lets you and your friends share your locations with each other so they can find each other. An option (also known as Nearby Friends) which also enables location history, and which will end on May 31.
Facebook warns users of the application that Nearby Friendsas well as other location-based features like Time-Alerts Where Weather Alerts will be decommissioned. The social network also promises that the geolocation data collected so far will be deleted from 1er next August.
Note, however, that this does not mean that the Facebook application will stop collecting all forms of data concerning the location of its users, since Meta has already specified that the latter will always be used, but ” for other experiences unless, of course, the user has taken the initiative to refute geolocation access.
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Source : 9to5Mac
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