Your smartphone knows more about you than your closest friends and family. As we've come to increasingly rely on our phones, we have trusted them with more and more data about ourselves.
Your smartphone knows more about you than your closest friends and family. As we've come to increasingly rely on our phones, we have trusted them with more and more data about ourselves.
As you read this sentence, your smartphone is hard at work monitoring your location, the number of steps you've walked, tracking the location of friends and family. It also has the password to your bank account, details on your sex life, a complete record of your calls and text messages.
As you read this sentence, your smartphone is hard at work monitoring your location, the number of steps you've walked, tracking the location of friends and family. It also has the password to your bank account, details on your sex life, a complete record of your calls and text messages.
#Your passwords
Have you ever logged into an app or website on your smartphone, and when prompted to save your password, you’ve answered “Yes”? We’ve all been there. It’s convenient and easy for the sites we visit to remember our information and save us the time it takes to login. However, do you really want Google, your smartphone, and some of those sketchy websites storing your information? Maybe not. Try the old fashioned way—just write down your passwords in a computer doc or, even better, with paper and pen (just don’t lose it)!
#The place that you have been to
Both Androids and iPhones have internal tracking devices that can see your location at any given point. Hidden in the settings of iPhones and Androids lies “Location Services.” If yours is switched on, your phone has likely built up a pretty long list of places you’ve been.
#Informations you shared to google
Androids are powered by Google apps (think: Chrome, Play Store, Gmail, etc.). As soon as you sign into your Android with your Google login, your phone is linked to all of your other Google accounts. Once you’ve logged in, your phone has access to everything Google does, including the length and type of your phone calls, your device, where you are, and more.
#What you told siri
Apple collects data from Siri to “understand you better and recognize what you say,” according to the software license agreement. This can track anything from the way you pronounce words to the trends in Siri searches. However, the information Siri learns is connected to your phone with a random ID––instead of your Apple account––to ensure anonymity.
#All the message that you sent
If you’re an iPhone user that deletes texting/iMessage conversations, here’s a surprise: Those conversations are probably still around. Apple keeps messages in an encrypted form “for a limited period of time” before they actually get deleted, just to “ensure that they get delivered and read properly.” The only thing is, Apple didn’t disclose how long “a limited period of time” is. Maybe it’s five minutes, but maybe it’s years.
