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11. Don’t Be a Smartphone Dummy

Carey Parker1 
(1)
North Carolina, USA
 

Mobile devices have become integral parts of our lives—particularly smartphones like Apple’s iPhone and all the variants of Android phones. Smartphones contain unbelievable amounts of extremely personal information including financial data, health data, your personal address book, e-mails, web surfing history, and access to much more data in the cloud. They also track your location pretty much anywhere on the planet, 24/7, because frankly they have to send you texts and phone calls. If that weren’t enough, smartphones have built-in microphones and cameras that can record everything ...

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