Facebook Is Still Secretly Tracking Your iPhone Or Android But Here's How To Stop It

Apple’s iOS 14.5 was supposed to let users take back control over their data, or so the narrative goes, by preventing apps from tracking their every move. Apple has been banging that privacy drum for a long time now, and customers have taken the company at its word. In fact, you’ve likely already read our report that a full 95% of users have opted out of allowing Facebook’s app to track their data since iOS 14.5 privacy changes launched a few short weeks ago. However, what’s to stop Facebook from continuing to track you once the data winds up on their servers? Not much, as it turns out, but there are options for turning the screws down a bit more.  Do You Really Need Geotagging On For Sharing Pictures? There are some pretty crazy loopholes the Facebook app uses to figure out where you are. Users unknowingly share their location with all kinds of services by accident every day. For instance, photos with geotags announce to the world where the photo was taken, and a timestamp will say when. Sharing access to photos effectively grants Facebook or any other service full reign to location history any time the camera is…
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