When talking to colleagues and friends, it appears that folks do not understand how their smartphones work and the data that can be accessed through them. This prompted me to again give basic steps that can be used to protect personal information that can be accessed, legitimately and in an unauthorized manner through the settings
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Privacy Tip #41 – Tape over your laptop camera and microphone
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
When I train clients’ employees on data privacy and security, I always mention the microphone on smartphones. They are powerful and if you allow apps access to your microphone, they can listen to every one of your conversations [see related privacy tip]. Do you want every one of your conversations to be accessible by…
Privacy Tip #7 – Who is listening to your conversations through your smartphone microphone?
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Data Privacy, Privacy Tips
I’ve always known that my smartphone had a microphone. If nothing else, it obviously has to be used for the Shazam app so I can figure out the name of that great song. So that is the only time I use the microphone on my phone. And then when I am finished using the Shazam…