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Facebook can reportedly track user location despite feature being disabled

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“Users have been trying everything possible to keep social media sites from tracking them after Facebook’s major security breach was revealed this year”Facebook and its privacy invasions have been a matter of concern for quite
“Users have been trying everything possible to keep social media sites from tracking them after Facebook’s major security breach was revealed this year”
Facebook and its privacy invasions have been a matter of concern for quite some time now. Users have been trying all they can to keep Facebook from obtaining their personal details, including their live location. Users have been trying to find ways to stop the social networking site from tracking their locations for ad targeting. Now, it has been revealed, as per a researcher, that it’s next to impossible to stop Facebook from tracking users’ location.
As per a report on Medium by Aleksandra Korolova, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at University of South California, even if you have disabled all ways through which Facebook could access your location, it can still find a way through and track your current location.

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