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How can I manage privacy on my smartphone?

How can I manage privacy on my smartphone?

From the course: How Marketers Collect and Use Your Data

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How can I manage privacy on my smartphone?

- Privacy on your smartphone is trickier than you think. In fact, it's nearly impossible. Smartphones have been called the perfect tracking device, and it's made all the easier as everyone lines up to buy them. Your location is the first privacy wall that's broken down. In order to get a signal, your phone needs to connect to nearby towers which are able to triangulate your exact position, and if you use a wifi network, your location can be pinpointed even more precisely. The fact is, your provider is able to track you anywhere you go, even when you use airplane mode. But that's the price we pay for convenience in this age. The level of communications and access to information are unprecedented, and the amount of our information that's created, stored, and analyzed is also unprecedented. While your cell phone service provider knows your location, so do the third parties that make games or business apps and the companies that make the phone's operating system. Closer to home, local…

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