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How to Stop Apps From Leaking Your Data
29.03.2024 - 11:31 / howtogeek.com / Bertel King
These days, smartphones can do it all. Unfortunately, they can also track it all. Smartphones have become a data mining gold mine, but you're not powerless—there are things you can do to make yours less accessible and valuable to those who seek profit from your activity.
Keep Tabs on Your Phone's Permissions
There are certain parts of your phone that apps have to request permission to access. An app cannot open the camera unless you first give it permission. It cannot access the microphone. It cannot search through your files.
Some of the apps that your phone came with may have permissions that you wish to revoke, or you may have granted undesirable permissions to apps you installed without paying much attention. You can change this by opening Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Permission Manager.
CloseCheck the Privacy Dashboard
Since Android 12, phones come with a feature known as the Privacy Dashboard. The Privacy Dashboard shows not only which apps have what permissions but also how often and how recently they've accessed them. You can click on an app that seems to be abusing its privileges and prevent it from having access in the future.
Go to Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Privacy Dashboard. Here is how to access the privacy dashboard on a Samsung device.
CloseStop Google Collecting App Data
When you first set up an Android device, if you say yes to every question Google asks during setup, you will supply the search giant with a lot of information about you. Fortunately, you can tell Google not to collect this information. In some cases, such as your web browsing and YouTube viewing history or your location data, you can even tell Google to delete it. You can also set up an auto-delete schedule so that Google can only save recently generated data.
You can audit these options by going to Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Activity Controls.
CloseRevoke Permissions for Unused Apps
While it's helpful to check permissions every few months periodically, that's often not something we're going to remember to do. Thankfully, Android can automatically revoke permissions for apps that haven't been used in a while.
On newer phones, this feature may already be enabled. To be sure, go to Settings > Apps and select an app. Scroll down to "Pause App Activity if Unused" and activate the toggle. In addition to revoking permissions, this will also delete temporary files and stop notifications from said app.
On a Samsung device, the steps are the same, but the wording has been changed to "Remove Permissions if App is Unused."
Uninstall Unused Apps
Many apps that we want or need tend to collect a lot of data in the background. Some social networking, video streaming, shopping,
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