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NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking (www.forbes.com)

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Our phones know where we are and they know where we have been—the problem is they have a nasty habit of sharing that information with others.

What. The. Fuck. Do you think you're doing?? A "nasty habit"??? You know good and goddamned well they're designed specifically to do that, and that location data is among the most prized of all personal information.

What sort of mindfuck juice are you chugging to write an inconcievably idiotic sentence like "phones do the cutest thing - they leak your location data! OMG! Squeeee"