You might be surprised by how many apps on your phone are tracking your location—often without you realizing it. Some apps are upfront and ask for permission the first time you open them, which is a ...

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Many iOS apps ask for precise location tracking permission by default the first time you open them. But it can be easy to forget how many or which apps you’ve given that permission. Here’s how to turn ...

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In his decades-long career in tech journalism, Dennis has written about nearly every type of hardware and software. He was a founding editor of Ziff Davis’ Computer Select in the 1990s, senior ...

Nowadays, almost every app you download asks for location permissions, meaning it wants to track where you are and your movements. For an app like Google Maps, requesting location access makes perfect ...

LONDON — 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. When you use a map app to find the ...

With consent, location-tracking can be immensely useful in some situations, experts say, but they warn that the technology is certainly not without potential harms and can lead to controlling and ...