Facebook does the spring cleaning. Some features, which exploited the data related to the location of the devices, will be deleted from apps for Android and iOS / iPadOS starting at the end of the monththat is, from May 31st.
The best known of the features that users will no longer be able to use is undoubtedly “Friends nearby”launched on European markets in 2015. If enabled, it warned us if any of our contacts were in the area, so that you can eventually contact and meet him. Then there are the weather alerts. Obviously both used the user’s geolocation. Both, to tell the truth, are now rather outdated by the times and uses of social platforms.
It is not enough: always in the same logic, increasing the privacy of users or at least eliminating the now redundant and useless uses, will be removed location history and all the features, more or less obvious to users, that exploit the localization in the background. From May 31st those data will no longer be collected and what has been stored so far will be deleted forever.
“The information you have shared that has been used for these experiences, including your location history and background location, will no longer be collected after May 31, 2022, even if you have previously enabled it,” explains a notification from the social network. Obviously whoever wants download your location history will be able to do so, but by August 1st. Then the data will be deleted. Attention: Facebook obviously continues to collect data on the location of users – if they have given their consent in the privacy settings – but that, from the end of the month, it will use them for a few less features.
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Source: Vanity Fair
