Jefferson County, CO – The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office is urging parents to review their teens’ social media privacy settings after warning that popular apps may share real-time location data without users realizing it.
According to a recent post from the Sheriff’s Office, everyday features like check-ins and tagged photos can reveal a teen’s exact whereabouts, leaving them vulnerable to strangers learning their routines, stalking, or other privacy breaches.
The department specifically mentioned Snapchat’s Snap Map, Instagram’s photo tagging, Facebook’s location check-ins, and TikTok’s embedded metadata as common sources of unintentional location sharing…