{"id":5946,"date":"2018-01-15T01:49:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/?p=5946"},"modified":"2018-01-15T01:50:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T01:50:01","slug":"all-the-ways-your-smartphone-and-its-apps-can-track-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftcguardian.com\/articles\/all-the-ways-your-smartphone-and-its-apps-can-track-you\/","title":{"rendered":"All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You"},"content":{"rendered":"

All the Ways Your Smartphone and Its Apps Can Track You<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0David Nield<\/a><\/p>\n

The little pocket supercomputers we all constantly carry around with us aren\u2019t just supplying us with useful information, they\u2019re also collecting a host of data on us and our habits, all of the time. Here\u2019s a guide to what gets collected by your smartphone and the apps running on it, and how you can take back some control.<\/p>\n

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Sensors, Android, and iOS<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Your smartphone is\u00a0packed with sensors, monitoring where you are in the world, how fast you\u2019re moving through space, which way up you\u2019re holding your phone, and more. All of this data is used by apps to improve the user experience\u2014so making sure your phone apps switch between landscape and portrait modes, and keeping you on the right route for your commute\u2014but how much of this data is logged and stored is largely up to the choices of the handset manufacturer.<\/p>\n

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Smartphone apps<\/strong><\/h3>\n

On top of the basic information collected by your smartphone and beamed back (or not beamed back) to the company that made your handset, there\u2019s all the information collected by the apps you run too\u2014the data that gets recorded and saved is down to an individual app\u2019s privacy policies and the permissions you give it.<\/p>\n

Read full article and learn more about Data and Privacy Policy here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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