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What (in the news) can you turn off on your smartphone, but still works as if it's on?

Asked by flo (13313points) August 15th, 2018
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Is it showing your geographic location? Is the problem fixed?

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It is location tracking by Google, even with the history turned off.

The link does describe how to make sure it is really off.

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So, isn’t this a big deal?

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zenvelo's avatar

@flo It is a big deal to people who worry about privacy and being tracked. But people who use smart phones are already being tracked in a myriad of ways; this is just one more instance.

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I was expecting the usual outrage about privacy.

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