author: Barth Faryna
New iOS 13 on iPhones Warns You Not to Use Facebook
The iOS 13 system, which is due to be launched this week, offers many new measures to protect users' privacy. One of them is to notify people when applications try to secretly spy without their consent. People who downloaded early versions of the software are warned about Facebook.
New software from Apple, iOS 13, will be available to users this week. Some people who downloaded an early version began to receive strange notifications about Facebook. Their content is as follows: "Facebook would like to use Bluetooth." This is due to the additional privacy measures Apple has decided to implement in the new iOS.
The software offers more options to control our data. It is the users who will decide which of them will be a available to a given application and which they will keep for themselves.
Facebook is trying to access Bluetooth technology to... track its users even when they're not using the app directly:
Using Bluetooth is also used to associate individual devices with each other. For example, when we leave home and go to someone else's property, Facebook is able to associate the presence of another device within our range and thus deduce who we went to meet. Experts fear that the data collected in this way may be used in a new dating service that the website is about to launch.
Facebook was still writing on its blog last week about new options for locating its users. However, experts point out that GPS and Bluetooth are not the only tools in the hands of the application. It can also draw conclusions from users' log-ins, events they have signed up for or Internet connection information.