From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy
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How your phone collects personal information
From the course: Cybersecurity Awareness: Protect Your Privacy
How your phone collects personal information
- [Instructor] Your device collects lots of personal information about you. Understanding what data is collected will help you make better privacy-related decisions about what to share. We carry our phones everywhere we go, and they collect a lot of information. They have sensors that detect motion. They have microphones that can listen to us. They have cameras. Our phones are where we store our financial information. All of our daily habits. So much information is stored on our phones. Think about it. Our phones know where we are at all times. They know where we go. They know who we are talking to. They know who we meet with. They know the websites we visit and the apps that we use, and they document pretty much everything that's happening in our lives, including things like health information and other sensitive things. Your phone collects information about your location constantly. It collects very precise information in a variety of different ways and different sensors, including…
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