{"id":3028,"date":"2019-11-06T12:34:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-06T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/?p=3028"},"modified":"2020-07-06T12:38:37","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T10:38:37","slug":"how-to-protect-your-privacy-with-android","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/news\/how-to-protect-your-privacy-with-android\/","title":{"rendered":"How to protect your privacy with Android"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On mobile devices, <a href=\"https:\/\/ditech.media\/news\/cybersecurity\/mobile-apps-implicit-trust-actual-risk\/\">apps can access a lot of pertinent information<\/a> such as contacts, web histories, location, photos, and more. This makes apps more useful\u2014for example, helping you navigate to the desired destination in Maps\u2014but you still want to make sure that you control who sees what.<\/p>\n<p>You can choose how their data is shared with apps and services through several different means:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Permissions<\/strong>: Apps have to ask you for permission to access certain types of data, like your photos or contacts. To grant or revoke permission, head to Settings &gt; Privacy, if you are using Android 10. For Android Pie and below, head to Settings &gt; Apps &amp; notifications &gt; Advanced &gt; App Permissions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Location permissions<\/strong>: You can tell an app that it may only access your location when you\u2019re actually using that app, as opposed to \u201call the time\u201d or \u201cnever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Incognito mode in Google Maps<\/strong>: When you turn on Incognito mode in Maps, your Maps activity on that device, like the places you search for, won\u2019t be saved to your Google Account and won\u2019t be used to personalize your Maps experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On mobile devices, apps can access a lot of pertinent information such as contacts, web histories, location, photos, and more. This makes apps more useful\u2014for example, helping you navigate to the desired destination in Maps\u2014but you still want to make sure that you control who sees what. You can choose how their data is shared &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3030,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,175,157,194,163,172,213,182,174,159],"tags":[193],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ditech.media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}