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Column by Geoffrey A. Fowler

Instagram has a new feature to share your precise real-time location with friends. There are many, many reasons you should think twice before enabling it. I’ll show you the settings you need to know.

Starting this week in the U.S., Instagram rolled out a new map view, which you access at the top of the direct-message inbox. The map, confusingly, combines two forms of location sharing: First, it includes locations you have actively tagged in recent Instagram stories or posts. Second, the app nudges you to opt in to a new form of passive location sharing — letting friends see wherever you last opened the app, even just to scroll through it. Paid Promoted Stories Seniors Say This $99 Hearing Aid Changed Their Life Oricle Hearing Ad is Hidden

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