Your Phone Apps Are Tracking Every Step You Take and Every Stop You Make (And Then Selling It) – activistpost.com

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12/11/18

 

You’re being watched constantly, at least if you have a cell phone with apps on them. A recently published report showed how seemingly innocuous apps were gathering information about how a person goes about their day. They refresh constantly, collecting data about your location.

 

These companies are tracking every step you take, every stop you make, and then selling it to the highest bidder.

 

Now, before I get the predictable chorus of people telling me they’d never ever use a smartphone and that if they did have one they wouldn’t enable location data on it, I can call BS (baloney sandwiches) on at least 44% of you because…well…Google tells me this. I get emails from Google every week telling me from what type of devices people access my website. I did not sign up to ask for this information – this is what Google does.

 

So while many of you are not using a mobile device, many of you are.

 

How the location apps are tracking every step you take

 

Everyone looks like dots on a map to the smartphone apps, but the information that can be put together is positively chilling. Here’s what a day looks like for one of these “dots” on a map:

 

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