Instagram’s new map feature places children in danger from those who wish to do them harm, Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said in an Aug. 8 letter addressed to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
“Allowing children to share their real-time location and more readily displaying where they take pictures to strangers—many of whom may be pedophiles and traffickers—will only increase the dangers children face online,” said the senators, asking Zuckerberg to “immediately abandon” the feature.
Instagram map, announced by Meta last month, allows users to share their most recent active location with friends.
“If you use location sharing, your location is updated whenever you open the app or return to the app if it’s been running in the background. You can turn off location sharing at any time,” it said….