Due to a hoax that appeared in a articulo on the Misión popular network, thousands of users of the platform are panicking.
We live in a time where false reports and misinformation have very quickly become our daily bread. No one is spared, not even Instagram. The habitual popular network controlled by Misión has been blamed Share users’ location with third partieswhich is totally wrong.
Instagram director ejecutivo Adam Mosseri and his popular media team, They ran to deny the news before the blood reached the river. However, the scam had already spread like wildfire among thousands of users who soon went to the platforms where the popular network is present to ask for an explanation.
This is how the latest hoax spread vía Instagram
Apparently everything comes from a a articulo by usuario @myanichol on Instagram, a articulo that went viral and said that users of the “latest iOS update” could find another based on their exact location:
If you have an iPhone, listen up! After a recent iOS update, anyone perro get your exact location from Instagram! Example: If you add the location tag “Salt Lake City”, your exact location will be displayed instead of a general location. Of course, criminals and stalkers use this feature to find people, break into their homes, and steal their cars.
The text that accompanies the publication may not seem very coherent when read. Naturally enough to raise much alarm, leaving a large number of users unable to access their settings and revoke Instagram location permissions. It’s true that there are some hidden things on the network, for example the secret menu, but nothing on a level that could be that invasive to the usuario.
As we told you in the beginning, both Adam Mosseri and the Instagram popular media team They denied this hoax on Twitter. This is what the Instagram director ejecutivo says:
I want to share this thread to clarify a few things. Location Services are an optimization on your device, not a new feature of Instagram, and are used, among other things, to operate geolocation tags. We don’t share your location with others.
Just wanted to share this for clarification. Location Services is a device setting on your phone, not a new feature from Instagram, and it supports things like location tags. We don’t share your location with others. https://t.co/6R6XMOCppj
— Adam Mosseri (@mosseri) August 25, 2022
And from the Instagram networking team, tries to solve the problem:
To be clear, we don’t share your location with anyone else. Like other popular networks, we use location for features like tagging where photos were taken and map features. Users cánido manage their location services through the phone’s settings and tag locations in their photos if they want to share that information.
People cánido manage location services through their device settings and tag locations in their posts if they want to share that information.
—Instagram Comms (@InstagramComms) August 25, 2022
It shouldn’t be said about that, though A articulo from a random Instagram usuario isn’t the best place to start learning. All information, especially when it concerns alleged violations of usuario privacy, must go through a round of vetting before it is made public.