Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Camera Lens

Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by kuhhk on Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:27AM (#18836724)

I think you’re fortunate to not need it, but I lived in an unfamiliar place for a few months and I used my map apps to identify the best routes (public transit, biking, should I walk, or should I Uber?) nearly 3-4 times a day.

Turning it off/on would be difficult, but I do set most apps to only allow location services during use... but the maps I have set to always. I also don’t have the Facebook app installed

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Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by Scoundreller on Sunday January 06, 2019 @12:50AM (#18836800)

The alternative is to keep location on (while in use), but download offline maps.

No idea if the app phones home with all historical location data if you re-enable data though...

Maybe that’s why Google likes to expire it’s offline maps ?

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Re:Facebook Knows How to Track You Using the Dust on Your Ca... by emj on Sunday January 06, 2019 @08:37AM (#18838233)

OsmAnd and MapsWithMe are good apps that you can use offline maps on indefinetly once downloaded. They use Openstreetmap of course.

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