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Facebook Now Lets Android Users Block Background Collection of Location Data (betanews.com)
Facebook has rolled out an update to Android users that gives them a greater degree of control over the sharing of location data with the social network. From a report: Specifically, the update makes it possible to stop Facebook from using tracking your location in the background when you are not using the app. The change brings parity to the iOS and Android Facebook apps. In introducing the new finer-grained controls, Facebook insists that it is "not making any changes to the choices you've previously made nor are we collecting any new information."
We only want what's best for you.
If no, this is sabotage.
... their predictive models are good enough that they don't need as much detail to track at the same of better levels...
Check your premises.
This is the difference between open and closed source right here. In closed source, you need their permission for them to "allow" you to do things. With open source, you are free to add or remove what you want and when you want. Mostly open source doesn't bother adding in malfeatures because they know someone will just disable it and release a fork.
Closed source software is the leash they use to control you because that's all you are to them: cattle. Don't believe me? Has Microsoft allowed you to disable the telemetry yet?
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
... if only I believed that Facebook are actually doing what they say...
Article Summarized:
Creepy Facebook rolls out an update that adds no-op "privacy" controls intended to fool gullible users into falsely believing it is no longer spying on them 24/7.
Facebook has repeatedly broken the rules, given away data specifically made private; sold to the highest bidder & or just the clever partner that could leech the data off them.
We, as a species need to disconnect from facebook.
A 'singular oddity' is an event that cannot be explained and only happens when you are alone.
Great! How about letting me sort my news feed in chronological order (by date posted, and not date of last frigging comment)?
"Murphy was an optimist" - O'Toole's commentary on Murphy's Law