How your phones spies on you

In an evil film if an evil corporation or government want to follow you they slip a tracking device onto your car or shoes etc. Of course now we carry smartphones everywhere.A personal GPS beacon makes it easier for people to know what your up to whether that's your mum,your friend or your boss.And not just google know where you are right now but also where you have been over the past week, over the past month or the past year and how long you have been there.This could have a massive impact on your life.

Lets start with the IPhone. This screen on your Iphone available in the settings app of your phone shows where you have been in the past few days.Try it for yourself.Many apps want your location too and you can't necessarily trust what they say they are doing.For example in April 2014 snap chat was told off by the US federal trade commission because they were sucking people's location without their consent and its exactly the same on googles phone.A free app called brightest flashlight on android demanded access to your location.People assumed it was something to do with knowing if it was dark where you were. In fact it was to serve location-based ads.The FTC wrapped them for deceptive practices too.And apps just don't only want your location they want access to your contacts,your calendar,your microphone,the phone's camera and even email so they can build their social networks,Salyut targeted ads or simply sell that data to another company and who knows where it will be used.