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Title: How to turn off location tracking on your iPhone or iPad
Post by: HCK on December 16, 2018, 04:05:15 pm
How to turn off location tracking on your iPhone or iPad

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<p>Most of us already know that many apps track our location data to better deliver information about local weather, shops, or movie showtimes. A new report from <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/12/10/business/location-data-privacy-apps.html" rel="nofollow">The New York Times[/url], though, reveals that this data is often frighteningly precise and collected up to 14,000 times per day. It’s so precise, in fact, that it’s possible to figure out intimate details of a person’s life merely by studying it. Worse, some apps sell this data to companies who then use it to push hyper-targeted ads to your phones.</p><p>Fortunately, the report also demonstrates that we iOS users are better protected than our Android counterparts. Even so, we’re far from immune.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/3327570/iphone-ipad/how-to-disable-location-tracking-on-your-iphone.html#jump">To read this article in full, please click here[/url]</p></section></article>

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