Your entire life is contained in that glass slab in your hand. From emails and private messages to photos and videos of your most treasured moments, it’s all there. However, you probably don’t spend anywhere near enough time making sure your phone is configured to protect your secrets. This applies whether you’ve had your phone for years or just got a new one in the Black Friday sales.
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This story originally appeared on WIRED UK.
There are a couple of different ways to think about privacy when it comes to your phone. There’s the data that it collects about your actions and interests, and then there are the protections you can put in place to stop people around you from accessing the physical device. Both are important, and there are easy things you can do to improve each of them.
Before we get into what you can do to improve your phone, there’s the sticky issue of Google. The tech giant owns and develops the Android operating system, and it is also one of the biggest collectors of personal data there is. The firm’s business model is based on making money by getting people to click on ads, and the information you provide it with goes towards this end.
So if you’re looking for more privacy in the everyday actions you take on your phone, you may wish to consider moving to iOS. However, that doesn’t mean there aren’t ways to improve some areas of your phone’s privacy.
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