Another option is to disable Messenger location access from the phone settings.David J. To avoid being tracked by the extension keep your location data private by disabling location sharing feature in your Messenger. The extension for Chrome is available on the Chrome web store, its source code is open and available on Github. It is important to highlight that there is no flaw in Facebook Messenger because the developer has simply exploited a feature that allows users to share their locations with friends. “This means that if a few people who I am chatting with separately collude and send each other the locations I share with them, they would be able to track me very accurately without me ever knowing.” However, I can still track their locations extremely accurately from the messages they send the group.” said Khanna.Īnother interesting discovery made by the developer is that it is possible to aggregate information from chat of different users with the same target in order to track him. I am currently in a large active chat to organize poker games with some fellow students, many of whom I am not Facebook friends with. “I found that I could even do this for people who I am not Facebook friends with.
If someone is able to involve Facebook users, not necessarily friends, in a chat he will be able to track their location. It is important to understand that in order to track position of a friend in Facebook it is necessary to have had a conversation with him over Messenger with location enabled. The Facebook mobile app for Facebook Messenger sends out the user’s location with all messages by default and let me add that that the precision of the coordinates is impressive.Īnother factor to consider it that the popular social network encourages the users of the Messenger app to share their location by enabling location sharing feature by default in the installation phase. You can get this extension here and play around with it on your message data. “I wrote a Chrome extension for the Facebook Messenger page ( ) that scrapes all this location data and plots it on a map.
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