Posted by pontormo on December 9, 2014, at 1:40:49
In reply to big brother, posted by baseball55 on December 7, 2014, at 19:40:12
Is there some way you can manage the privacy settings on your iphone to limit whatever monitoring is being done, or figure out which app is doing it, and get rid of the app?
Maybe it's google maps or something like that, if you've signed in and ask for directions or consulted it for traffic on routes to the meeting, at a certain time every week.
The privacy section of my iphone has pages that show which apps have asked for private information-- and you could also check that to see if there's anything you could change about some particular app's access to your location services, etc.
I personally find this kind of thing extremely intrusive and improper and do as much as I can to limit my apps' access to various information. Which doesn't mean that they don't have lots of ways of getting it-- but at least I try to set my computer etc up so as to do as much as I can to keep their hands off it.
I do this on the computer, the iphone, and ipad-- all the electronic media I use. Browsers and many websites have privacy settings-- so I always look for them, too.
I never for example give them access to my photos or post photos online-- or share purchases on social media --or sign up for access to websites using facebook information, etc, etc, etc.
I'm hoping eventually there will be legislation giving people greater control of their information. But of course-- that may never happen.
Meanwhile, we're somewhat defenseless-- but there are a few precautions you can take.
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