Instagram users are voicing concern their whereabouts were shared without their knowledge despite Meta saying the feature is opt-in.

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.

  • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org
    1·
    3 months ago

    nobody needs to install it nowadays, because it comes preinstalled on all phones. and lots of people just mindlessly allow every kind of permission

    • FlappyBubble@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      Is it really preinstalled on all phones? Not on iphones and neither on my Samsung S22 or my Pixels.

      • 7toed@midwest.socialEnglish
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        3 months ago

        Android is the devil when it comes to it. My S22+ certainly did have “Meta App Manager” and “Meta Package Installer” hidden as system services, which could only be removed using ADB.