Manage Your Mobile Privacy
Everything I’ve discussed so far about online privacy applies when you’re using a computer to access the internet. Your smartphone or tablet is also a computer that can connect to the internet, and I’ve called out a number of issues that affect mobile devices as much as their desktop counterparts (including private web browsing and email access) But mobile devices pose additional, unique challenges:
Smartphones—along with some tablets and smartwatches—connect to cellular data networks, which give mobile carriers additional tools to track users’ behavior, such as Supercookies.
Apps try to access all kinds of data on your device; some of it is for legitimate purposes, and some not. You can control which app can do what; ...
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