How to Stop Apps from Tracking Your Location - NYT

by **bdahm** Thu Dec 20, 2018 5:07 pm

Hundreds of apps can follow your movements and share the details with advertisers, retailers and even hedge funds. Here’s how to limit the snooping.

At least 75 companies receive people’s precise location data from hundreds of apps whose users enable location services for benefits such as weather alerts, The New York Times found. The companies use, store or sell the information to help advertisers, investment firms and others.

[Read the full investigation: Your Apps Know Where You Were Last Night, and They’re Not Keeping It Secret]
You can head off much of the tracking on your own device by spending a few minutes changing settings. The information below applies primarily to people in the United States.

https://nyti.ms/2G93leA

-Bill