Your Smartphone May be Tracking Your Every Move.....

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This is a bit disturbing, to say the least.....

This is the link for the article, and how to disable the feature:

http://www.today.com/money/your-smartphone-may-be-tracking-your-every-move-t17056

It is disturbing that we are being monitored constantly. I hate it when I go to a website I've never been to before and get greeted by name.

Thanks for the informative link. I shall now follow the directions to remove the eyes of Google from my smartie phone.

OMG, that's disturbing----having them greet you, by name.....

You're quite welcome----I'm glad the info. was useful!

I have been aware of this for a while now....and know how to disable the tracking feature when I want to. Sometimes I leave it on if I want local weather updates or am using some other program where the phone knowing my location is helpful...otherwise I turn it off. Though my phone always asks me if I want to share my location when I go to new pages and what not before loading them as well so I can say no if I want. Also though thanks to androids connection to google I didn't even have to manually put all my contacts in the new phone I just got....it just transferred them for me, admittedly I was a little weird-ed out but also relieved.

But I suppose this is good information for anyone who's still in the dark about this.

I just got one of those new smart-a** phones. Every time I log onto the GPS it tells me to "pick up a freakin' map!" I'm not likin' it very much.

I think we're kidding ourselves if we think turning off Location Services (and whatever the same thing is called on Android) is really disabling it in terms of the government or the powers that be being able to use the device to find us. I bet, at a minimum, the feature can be re-enabled remotely by LEO if they have a warrant, and probably even if they don't. Beyond that, even then they can likely at least figure out your rough location with your phone's signals and what cell phone towers its communicating with. Bottom line, carry a cell phone, and especially a smart phone, and LE and the gover knows exactly, or at least roughly, where you are at all times.

so... yeah, a smartphone is a perfect personal tracking device, that's not news, really.
there's quite a remarkable thing happening in the UK, actually: the finest 'non-smart'-phone, some old motorola thing, has become a somewhat valuable commodity amongst drug dealers, as it's the best phone developed, before everything became a tracking device.

anyway, about webistes greeting you with name and such:
set your browser to delete cookies whenever you close it
install 'ghostery' plugin to block tracking services
install an ad-blocking plugin

and then there's this not-really-handy-but educational tool:
lightbeam, for firefox
it creates a graphic to show you which websites you have visited and which 3rd party websites you unknowingly connected to while you were surfing the one you wanted to visit.
it's scary.
view one website, and what you're actually doing is dipping all your cookie data into this network/pool of websites you never wanted to visit, let alone give access to ANYTHING.

going to a sex-shop in town is less public than watching porn online, I tell you.
at least, in case the sex-shop owner asks for my ID, he only checks, but doesn't save the data.

I use a Block-It Pocket ( https://www.blockitpocket.com/index_osc.php) for my cellular telephone. It uses a Faraday-cage mesh in its fabric to block incoming and outgoing signals while protecting the phone from accidental drops. Sure, the phone won't ring or vibrate if it is in the bag, but that is what voice-mail messages are for (I own the phone; the phone doesn't own me). Its GPS tracking ability (required by federal law on all cell phones in the United States) is disabled also when in the bag. And, best of all, since it blocks outgoing signals, cell-phone radiation is nonexistent while my phone is in the bag (think about how many people shove their cell phones in their front pants pocket bathing their genitals in radiation all day long; no, really, think about it). The bag, and many similar products, are Made in the USA and costs $39.95.

Well there is a simple solution, leave your mobile phone at home if you do not want to be tracked. Also use cash only

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