{"id":4684,"date":"2015-06-08T14:30:11","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T14:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam-jackson.net\/blog\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2015-05-29T14:45:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T14:45:27","slug":"linked-stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/linked-stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;Stalking Your Friends with Facebook Messenger&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@arankhanna\/stalking-your-friends-with-facebook-messenger-9da8820bd27d\">via Medium<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Go ahead and see how many messages in your chats have locations attached. I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s a lot of them. And if this isn&#8217;t already starting to get a bit weird, the first thing I noticed when I started to write my code was that the latitude and longitude coordinates of the message locations have more than 5 decimal places of precision, making it possible to pinpoint the sender\u2019s location to less than a meter.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A free messaging app that is the #1 downloaded free app on iOS from a publicly traded company that, at today\u2019s stock price is worth 223 billion that collects no money from their 1 billion users is tracking every location of their users as they send messages and it is following you after you leave Facebook.com to see what other sites you visit and it\u2019s built in at the system level on your phone and desktop and wants to store every relationship, contact, message and photo you\u2019ve ever created.<\/p>\n<p>and we\u2019re willingly giving them more of our information.<\/p>\n<p>I know these group messaging applications are really popular. I\u2019ve never used GroupMe or frankly any group-chat application ever. I use SMS and while the NSA is reading all of those messages, at least there will be some moment when congress can rope in that spying and my tax dollars are going toward it for my \u2018safety\u2019. I\u201dm not going to make this about the NSA. My point is, Facebook is a company and their customers are advertisers and they\u2019re tracking your location constantly.<\/p>\n<p>No one is bothered by this?<\/p>\n<p>Back to something I wrote a few days ago that will be posted to this site eventually, my sisters don\u2019t use any of the default applications that came on their iPhones. I don\u2019t know why SnapChat and GroupMe replaced SMS or why Google Inbox replaced Apple Mail or Chrome replaced Safari or Skype replaced FaceTime. Why Spotify is better than iTunes. I don\u2019t know the answer to that but it seems weird that Apple that has fought so hard to promise they won\u2019t store data without your permission, they won\u2019t track you and they won\u2019t sell your data and these apps all come preinstalled on your phone for free yet people still opt to entrust very openly evil corporations with their very personal data.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Medium: Go ahead and see how many messages in your chats have locations attached. 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Williams says one of the things that has changed is the sheer scale of mobile users,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":6016,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2016\/08\/03\/linked-snapchat-launches-a-colossal-expansion-of-its-advertising\/","url_meta":{"origin":4684,"position":4},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Snapchat Launches a Colossal Expansion of Its Advertising&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"August 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"via AdWeek: With the rollout of Snap Ads Between Stories, Snapchat is promising once again to avoid pelting users with marketing messages. \"By doing this the right way, focused on creativity and doing it early, it allows us to be extraordinarily conservative,\" says Sellis. \"Something that I think often gets\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":3301,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2011\/12\/01\/who-disables-location-services\/","url_meta":{"origin":4684,"position":5},"title":"\u2605 Who Disables Location Services?","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"December 1, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"John Gruber of Daring Fireball: On iOS the setting is off by default, plainly labeled, and even when turned on,\u00a0apparently only logs (a) location data and (b) when a phone call was active. 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