Is Your Phone Listening to You? - How Our Devices Keep Tabs On Us

Here’s how to set up your devices for better privacy: How to Stop Alexa from Sending Your Interactions for Human Review: To turn off human review of your Alexa recordings, go to the Alexa Privacy settings on Amazon or in the Alexa app. Then go to "Manage How Your Data Improves Alexa" and toggle off the tab saying "Help Improve Amazon Services and Develop New Features." How to Check and Tighten Your iPhone Privacy Settings: You can control what apps have access to from the Settings app. In the Settings app, scroll down and tap on “Privacy” to reveal a list of private types of data, like Location Services, Contacts, and Photos. Tap on each of these to see a list of apps that have requested access. Tap the toggle to grant or revoke access to any app you see fit. Ditch Ad-Tracking on Android: One of Google’s motivations in making Android freely available is that it can gather more data about your habits and target ads. You can opt out of this feature rather easily right from your phone. Go to Settings then Google, then Ads, and activate the “Opt out of Ads Personalization” toggle. Disable Certain Permissions That Apps May Have but Don’t Need on Android: Android also makes permissions accessible in the app settings (under the main system settings). Each app info page includes toggles for all its permissions. So, you can turn off Facebook’s location tracking even if you accidentally allowed it in the past.

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