Facebook says it’s not using location data to suggest friends, even after admitting it was

[Guest Chris Smith]

http://androidforum.us/data/MetaMirrorCache/7bf99038cfe3521f4668180a27b485c1.jpgOK Facebook, you really need to make up your mind about what you say in public. And it would probably be a lot easier if you didn’t sneak certain features past your customers. The social network recently admitted to using smartphone location data to recommend friends to people, after someone discovered a recommendation that had no other reasonable explanation than the harvest and use of location data. But now, Facebook says that’s not what it’s doing at all.

 

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