How often do you use your smartphone?
If you’re like nearly 80% of smartphone users, you have your phone with you nearly 24/7. Many of us can’t sleep without them by our sides, and they’re the first thing we check when we get up in the morning. Almost a third of us can’t imagine living without it.
Hard to believe that such a ubiquitous device hasn’t been around all that long. While the telephone has been around in one form or another for well over a century, and cell phones for a few decades now, the smartphone is still very new. The first modern touchscreen smartphones were the iPhone, launched in 2007, followed by the launch of Android OS in 2008.
But in just a few short years, the total number of people using smartphones worldwide has already surpassed a billion. Smartphone usage around the world is rapidly approaching 50% of the entire world’s population. We use our smartphones constantly for daily activities like chatting with friends, banking and shopping, and even monitoring our health. There’s an app for everything you can think of, from drunk dialling prevention, to detecting paranormal activity, and more.
Since our phones are always by our sides, they reveal a lot of information about us.
And even though they haven’t been around that long, there are already those who’ve learned to take advantage of all that information.
You’ve probably heard that the NSA has been spying on smartphones, reading our texts and emails and even tracking our movements.
But they’re not the only ones. With the wealth of easily accessible information about you that your smartphone can provide, many businesses, organizations, and others have learned to use that data to their own ends.
Here’s who’s doing the spying, and what steps you can take to keep your personal data private.
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Infographic sources:
1. App looks to block mobile location tracking, but it won’t stop the NSA
2. How to stop your iPhone from tracking your every move
3. This Android app turns off Wi-Fi tracking without turning off Wi-Fi
4. Blackphone
5. iPhone logs my complete movement profile (Bewegungsprofil)
6. Here's How Others Can Easily Snoop On Your Cell Phone
7. My phone at your service
8. Untrackerd Destroys Your iPhone's Tracking Data
9. How Retailers Use Smartphones To Track Shoppers In The Store
10. Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
11. How to turn off location-tracking on a Google Android phone
12. Skyhook
13. NSA Can Reportedly Track Phones Even When They're Turned Off
14. An App to Stop Tracking
15. GPS Weakness Could Enable Mass Smartphone Hacking
16. 7 Ways to Stop NSA Spying on Your Smartphone
1. App looks to block mobile location tracking, but it won’t stop the NSA
2. How to stop your iPhone from tracking your every move
3. This Android app turns off Wi-Fi tracking without turning off Wi-Fi
4. Blackphone
5. iPhone logs my complete movement profile (Bewegungsprofil)
6. Here's How Others Can Easily Snoop On Your Cell Phone
7. My phone at your service
8. Untrackerd Destroys Your iPhone's Tracking Data
9. How Retailers Use Smartphones To Track Shoppers In The Store
10. Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell
11. How to turn off location-tracking on a Google Android phone
12. Skyhook
13. NSA Can Reportedly Track Phones Even When They're Turned Off
14. An App to Stop Tracking
15. GPS Weakness Could Enable Mass Smartphone Hacking
16. 7 Ways to Stop NSA Spying on Your Smartphone
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