Facebook has announced that it has decided to remove some geolocation tracking applications from the platform. That’s why features that track your real-time location, such as Close Friends and weather alerts, will be discontinued at the end of this month.
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Facebook will end some of its location tracking services on May 31
A Facebook administrator who made a statement on the subject confirmed that these location-tracking applications will be removed on the last day of May. However, some services that also use location history and background location are expected to be discontinued in the near future.
Of course, in the statement made by Facebook, it is said that the reason for the removal of these applications is not real-time location tracking, but low usage rate. However, it is estimated that the biggest reason for the low use of all the services in the list is location-based.
But that doesn’t mean Facebook will stop collecting geolocation data. Such information will continue to be collected and processed so that other experiences can be worked on in accordance with the company’s data policy.
Therefore, many people argue that Facebook has removed these applications that access user data and can track geolocation, as a show. Because only the services with the lowest usage rate are removed.
It was hardly expected that Facebook would voluntarily stop collecting such valuable user data. However, Meta has come under a lot of backlash in recent years for the way it handles sensitive user information. For this reason, he may have wanted to reduce his rate a little.
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