How to stop smartphone apps from collecting your personal data
Smartphone apps can collect a whole lot of data about you:
Your name and email address, location history, personal contacts, photos and videos, purchases, health and fitness data, financial information, browsing and search history, your IP address and other sensitive data.
Why? Your personal data is worth money — and although Apple and Google are working to crack down, these companies may share and sell your data to third-parties, usually without you even knowing.
If you're concerned about your privacy, here are a few steps you can take to further protect your data on your smartphone.
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