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Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by Pamar »

pjerem wrote: post #56
appplemac wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More specifically: Settings.app —> Privacy —> Location services —> Camera and turning off the “precise location” option for the Camera app that way. It would be ideal if there were an “EXIF data” toggle in the Camera section that could allow sharing pictures with apps but with all metadata removed.

It exists : when the sharing panel appears, there is little blue « Options » (or maybe Settings in English) link on the top of the screen. There you can choose to share the picture without location.

Maybe I misunderstood your message. I tried to share a photo from my iPhone to a whatsapp chat and I could not find any way to remove location data. On the other hand, this article says that you can do that when you start from the photo album and ask to share to someone else. Is this what you meant?

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by golergka »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #37
p49k wrote: post #28

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In some countries, you can't perform essential tasks such as booking a doctor's appointment without Whatsapp. It's not that simple.

not a single day goes by without the company taking a crap in some corner. my proposal is more radical. rally to ban FB in that country. incentivize local companies to come up with alternative solutions. zuck and his comrades have no business poking their noses into foreigners medical data anyway. it would also avoid less taxes being lost on facebooks Double Irish tax evasion. treat them like the cancer they are. don…

> incentivize local companies to come up with alternative solutions.

Living in a country where local social networks are more popular with general population than foreign ones (Russia), I'd rather prefer FAANG. "Local companies" may sound good because the word "local" has some nice connotations, like your "local store" or "local coffee shop". But in reality, "local companies" do all the bad stuff that Facebook does, and also go above and beyond to cooperate with the state against the protesters or any political dissidents. And they're also not as good at writing software, so these networks have significantly worse design and a lot more bugs.

There are millions of example where people want to solve a problem, think that they will be able to do it with government regulation, and end up with a situation that is much worse. But even among them, this is a case where it could only make situation worse. And much, much worse.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by benhurmarcel »

freebuju wrote: post #24

Yeah. This is not particularly a Facebook problem. And it certainly is not an iPhone exclusive one. I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data. Should be trivially easy to strip this info and "track" you as well. Am not seeing anyone crying over this.

> I would be willing to bet my 2¢ that Apple photo backups store your photos with exif data.

I sure hope so. The EXIF data has to be part of the backups, it's important data.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by benhurmarcel »

f6v wrote: post #25
speedgoose wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately it's not that simple for everyone. I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp. On all my contacts, I have two on Signal, zero on Matrix.

People used to send emails.

People used to send letters.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by andylynch »

Pamar wrote: post #81
pjerem wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It exists : when the sharing panel appears, there is little blue « Options » (or maybe Settings in English) link on the top of the screen. There you can choose to share the picture without location.

Maybe I misunderstood your message. I tried to share a photo from my iPhone to a whatsapp chat and I could not find any way to remove location data. On the other hand, this article says that you can do that when you start from the photo album and ask to share to someone else . Is this what you meant?

Yes, the option only appears when sharing from the Photos app

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by cr1895 »

woutr_be wrote: post #58
speedgoose wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unfortunately it's not that simple for everyone. I personally would lose contact with a lot of people if I delete Messenger or Whatsapp. On all my contacts, I have two on Signal, zero on Matrix.

I really hate it when people say “just delete Facebook apps”. I would lose touch with almost everyone I know. They either use Facebook or WhatsApp, I can’t justify deleting either.

You can continue to use Facebook with the mobile website…the point of the parent comment was to just not use the app itself.

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by woutr_be »

cr1895 wrote: post #87
woutr_be wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I really hate it when people say “just delete Facebook apps”. I would lose touch with almost everyone I know. They either use Facebook or WhatsApp, I can’t justify deleting either.

You can continue to use Facebook with the mobile website…the point of the parent comment was to just not use the app itself.

How does that work for WhatsApp (a Facebook app now)?

Re: Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone

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Post by nieve »

jack_riminton wrote: post #70

With all of the complexity of tracking technology, protocols and data laws I'm wondering whether these findings are also revelations to FB. I'm not shilling for them but just wondering whether some of these results are a direct consequence of the nature of the systems rather than nefarious design

Some set of developers wrote code to extract the location metadata and feed it to their tracking system for advertising purposes. How can that be just some emergent property? Actual human beings held meetings about it and worked long hours getting it done. It's hard to see your claim as not "shilling" for them.
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