Facebook developing app that will track your every move – even when it’s turned off

• App intended to alert users when Facebook ‘friends’ are nearby
• It will also help the social network target localised adverts
• Privacy campaigners warn it is ‘profit trumping privacy’

Facebook is developing a new smartphone app to track the location of users in an effort to target them with localised adverts, according to reports.

The app will help users to find friends who are nearby, alert them when it detects one in close proximity even when the app is not open on the handset, it is claimed.

It will be just one of a whole suite of mobile apps Facebook is building up to help it profit from the increasing proportion of its users who access the social network on the go.

But privacy campaigners warned it was another example of ‘profit trumping privacy’ and called the function ‘intrusive’. Read more Daily Mail