How to block your phone from tracking your location There are so many possible ways for smartphones — and other devices like smartwatches — to track our location that it’s hard to provide an ...

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 ...

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. Smartphones are useful tools for everyday life ...

But in other cases, there’s little justification for tracking your whereabouts, which then can be exploited by apps, ad services or even hackers.