5 Things Your Phone Is Secretly Doing Right Now

Mapping Your Location Continuously

Unless you have explicitly disabled location services for all apps, your phone is building and transmitting a detailed record of your physical movements. This data is used for everything from targeted advertising based on the stores you visit, to traffic calculation services,




to the location history features inside apps like Google Maps. The granularity of this location data is remarkable — accurate enough to identify which specific store you entered, how long you stayed, and which products were nearby.