Instagram’s new location-sharing update is raising privacy concerns, with users reporting their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the update is opt-in.
Experts warn that location-sharing features are linked to a higher risk of tech-based coercive control.
The controversy follows other recent privacy issues for Meta, including a lawsuit over the misuse of sensitive health data from a women’s health tracking app.
Isn’t this the same thing Snapchat did years ago?
Still does. This article should have been a PSA about an on-going issue with multiple apps, but they insisted on a villain to blame as somehow being worse than others. All of these apps will randomly and repeatedly ask to enable such things; They have done so for years and years.
That they haven’t done, in my experience. I deleted Snapchat a while ago, but I don’t recall it prompting me repeatedly to enable location. I’m still on Instagram now, and I’ve had the location permission off probably forever, and I’ve never noticed it asking for it.