🔰Part 4: Location, Google Maps, Waze,🔰
This should not come as a surprise…..Google, Apple, Facebook, Banks are tracking you everywhere you go. Every purchase you make, every location you visit, every bank transaction or mobile deposit. Many of these services require your location information. It doesn’t matter if you turn off location, every time you open an app, that lets the app you are using to tell the server where you are. This information is very valuable to companies that sell your information to advertisers. Some people say “I don’t have anything valuable or anything to hide.” Well, what about the patterns established by you traveling to visit family members, parents, grandparents, kids, grandkids, etc. You can’t be everywhere and police your entire social circle and bad guys will capitalize on these patterns. Some key tips: Vary your route, be a hard target, read the small print when choosing which apps you use to navigate. If they require excessive permissions on your device, don’t use them. There are countless groups out there that would love nothing more than to gain access to your information and use it as part of a botnet, crypto mining scheme, etc.
➖ @DarkDenial ➖
This should not come as a surprise…..Google, Apple, Facebook, Banks are tracking you everywhere you go. Every purchase you make, every location you visit, every bank transaction or mobile deposit. Many of these services require your location information. It doesn’t matter if you turn off location, every time you open an app, that lets the app you are using to tell the server where you are. This information is very valuable to companies that sell your information to advertisers. Some people say “I don’t have anything valuable or anything to hide.” Well, what about the patterns established by you traveling to visit family members, parents, grandparents, kids, grandkids, etc. You can’t be everywhere and police your entire social circle and bad guys will capitalize on these patterns. Some key tips: Vary your route, be a hard target, read the small print when choosing which apps you use to navigate. If they require excessive permissions on your device, don’t use them. There are countless groups out there that would love nothing more than to gain access to your information and use it as part of a botnet, crypto mining scheme, etc.
➖ @DarkDenial ➖