Watching the development of the script for a film about spies is extremely entertaining, but hardly any of the people dream of becoming an object of surveillance. However, the realities of the modern world are such that we are all “under the hood” of our own smartphones. Mobile phones regularly merge information about the personal life of its owner, who do not even suspect of surveillance or do not know that there are ways to stop this mess.
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What is tracking a smartphone
A modern telephone collects, carefully stores and eagerly “merges” into the Internet any information about its owner regarding its movements (up to minutes).
At the same time, the employees of the American company Apple vowly assure the owners of the iPhone that this data remains in a special storage and will never be in the public domain without their consent.
Manufacturers of Android phones do not deal with such “trifles”. Therefore, information collected by mobile devices is sent to Google for storage. Thus, any person who has obtained, through legal or illegal means, access to personal Google accounts can receive data on the movements of phone owners.
In addition, there are other ways to monitor smartphone owners:
- cell towers;
- Wi-Fi and Bluetooth;
- applications and webcams;
- GPS tracking
- fake cell towers and chargers.
How to disable on iOS
Completely weaning the iPhone from spy habits is practically impossible, but seriously moderate its appetites.
In particular, the basic tracking function in Apple smartphones is disabled in the following way:
- "Settings" (Settings);
- "Privacy" (Privacy);
- “Geolocation Service” (Location Servis);
- Frequent Locations
It is in this way that the owner of the smartphone gets into the data storage of his iPhone, where he can turn off the function of tracking his movements by simply moving the button to the OFF position.
How to disable in Android
Disabling the basic surveillance program on Android-based mobile devices is a bit easier. First, go to “Settings”, and from there go to “Google Location History” and turn off this option (OFF).
General recommendations
They have not even learned how to deal with cell towers even at Apple. Therefore, the owner of any smartphone can save incognito only when the device is turned off or in "Airplane" mode.
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cannot get rid of surveillance without completely disabling these features. After all, each phone has a unique MAC address for identification and discloses this information to all nearby access points, even if it is not connected to them.
Ways to protect against fake cell towers and chargers that can read any information from mobile devices have not yet been invented. Therefore, in this case, you should be careful:
- Do not recharge mobile gadgets in suspicious cafes and other similar establishments or institutions;
- The "tenth road" to go around strategic objects (embassies, buildings of law enforcement agencies, military bases, power plants, etc.), where expensive "spy" cell towers can be installed.
Internet search and the numerous applications installed in the smartphone quite often cause leakage of personal data, and also make mobile devices vulnerable to hackers. In addition, smartphones are able to track their location using the GPS module, and then transfer this data to the network through some applications.
At the same time, iPhone owners can try to get rid of this problem if they go the following way:
- "Settings" (Settings);
- "Privacy" (Privacy);
- "Location Services" (Location Servis).
In Android mobile devices, the option to disconnect a specific application from the phone’s geolocation appeared in version 6.0.Earlier versions do not have such capabilities, but there are utilities that allow you to configure this feature in such phones.
Is it worth it to be afraid
Mobile phones are one of the most ingenious inventions of mankind, without which it is difficult to imagine life in modern society. Owners of smartphones not justifiably consider these devices to be indispensable helpers and trust them with all their secrets, which immediately become known to the whole world.
It’s easy to make sure. One has only to go to Google Mars and enter the initials of almost any person in the search line, as this service will immediately give a brief history of his life with an indication of his place of birth, study and work. If you wish, you can find out and addictions of the object of study, up to what entertainment institutions this person prefers, and at what time he visits them.
Fortunately, this method does not always work efficiently. Especially when a person has a common surname. However, you should not rely on the case, since there are real ways to make your smartphone stop inappropriate surveillance.
