Protect your data

• A study published in 2018 revealed that a dormant, stationary Android phone (with the Chrome browser active in the background) communicated location information to Google 340 times during a 24-hour period

Source: Digital Content Next – Prof. Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, August 2018

• An other study published in 2018 revealed that of 100,000 android tested apps, 88.4% contained Google trackers while 42.55% contained Facebook trackers

Source: Third Party Tracking in the Mobile Ecosystem – Reuben Binns, Ulrik Lyngs, Max Van Kleek, Jun Zhao, Timothy Libert∗, Nigel Shadbolt – Oxford University.

• These tech firms then build fine personality profiles and behavioral analysis which are of a great value for marketors. Google is the world biggest advertising company

• But there could be worse consequences than invasive ads. Other unscrupulous actors can also collect your data for influence or fraudulent purposes