How companies use your phone’s location data

Опубликовано 29 мая 2026, 18:15

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Your phone is the best tool in your pocket for most things, but if you're privacy-minded, it might be working against you. This video explains how phone tracking works, and what you can do to try and control it.

Special thanks to Serge Egelman for helping us out with this one. icsi.berkeley.edu/icsi/people/...

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0:00 Your phone's location might not be private
0:29 How do phones even know my location
2:34 Sponsor
3:10 How do companies get your data
4:30 What they do with your data
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