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Facebook iPhone app insanity

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Researchers Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk warn that “Facebook reads accelerometer data all the time. If you don’t allow Facebook access to your location, the app can still infer your exact location only by grouping you with users matching the same vibration pattern that your phone accelerometer records.”

This is fukking crazy. Facebook still collecting location data from iPhone users even when users explicitly disable the collection of that data.
 
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