Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life, but they're privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you've been — if you let them. Smartphones are useful tools for ...

Google was forced to be more transparent about its location tracking practices after a 2018 Associated Press story that found the company continued to track people’s location data even after ...

How to block your phone from tracking your location There are so many possible ways for smartphones — and other devices like smartwatches — to track our location that it’s hard to provide an ...

News How to block your phone from tracking your location in a few easy steps Published: Feb. 07, 2025, 6:30 a.m.

Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life but they’re privy to nearly everything about you, including all the places you’ve been.

One Tech Tip: How to block your phone from tracking your location Experts warn sharing movements and routines can be risky ...

Phones use various signals to find your location, including cell tower pings, Wi-Fi access points, Bluetooth and GPS. Sometimes your phone needs to know your location to provide a useful service ...

“From fitness tracking to navigation, every location ping potentially reveals details about our routines and movements – which could be risky in the wrong hands,” said Darren Guccione, CEO ...

Sometimes your phone needs to know your location to provide a useful service, like telling the Uber driver where to pick you up. But in other cases, there’s little justification for tracking ...