Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook

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Instagram prototypes handing your location history to Facebook
October 4, 2018
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/04/instagram-location-history/

Instagram has been spotted prototyping a new privacy setting that would allow it to share your location history with Facebook. [...] The geo-tagged data would appear to users in their Facebook Profile’s Activity Log, which include creepy daily maps of the places you been.

A Facebook spokesperson [...] "Instagram does not currently store Location History; we’ll keep people updated with any changes to our location settings in the future.” That effectively confirms Location History sharing is something Instagram has prototyped, and that it’s considering launching but hasn’t yet.

It’s unclear whether the feature would launch as opt-in or opt-out. [Correction: The prototype defaulted to off and Wong had to turn it on.]

Delivering the exact history of where Instagram users went could assist Facebook with targeting them with local ads across its family of apps. [...] It could even show ads for restaurants or shops close to where users spend their days.
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