Are your phone’s privacy settings doing anything? – Pickr

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Beyond your keys, there’s probably one thing you can’t leave the house without. It always needs to be charged, topped up, and kept with you at all times: your phone.

It’s your wallet, your map, your communicator, your email, your music player, your camera, your menu, your mirror, your way to catch a ride, your research buddy, and more.

Your phone is your way to connect with everything and the world in this day and age, and it is probably on your person or near it at all times of the day when you’re clothed.

But did you know that what you do on that device isn’t always secure and isn’t always private?

Things are getting better, but there are scores of ways advertisers and marketers and websites can track what you’re doing.

What’s going on?

Everything wants in

What makes your phone unique isn’t just that it’s your phone, but rather that it’s reflective of your life. That’s important and key to understanding privacy settings on the whole, because your life and your data are both unique to you.

It’s about you. It’s about the things you do, and it’s probably stored on your phone.

Whether entirely or partially, your phone acts as a source of truth specific to you, detailing information that’s important to you and things you’re planning to do.

That sort of data is lucrative to companies who want it, and it can be sold or sent freely to people with little bits of code that monitor it for use later.

It can include and reflect your location data and GPS information, your camera, microphone, calendar, call logs, contacts, health, and more. If external third party apps can take advantage of any information in your life gleaned from any of the features available on that device, you can bet someone will have a script, a cookie, or a part of an app keen to do just that.

Every time you see something important on your phone and wholly relevant to you, that’s sensitive data…

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