Tracking: Prevent from being tracked through your phones

All of us know that you can be tracked through you smartphone and there is none who wants to be monitored all the time. We have to give our details information to get Google search facilities. For social networking, you have to give your personal details to facebook. Apart from these, picture of your mobile phone, Bluetooth technology and even you phone battery can track you. Let us know how your device can monitor you.

You are being tracked!

Metadata of an Image:

Date, time and so other information are saved in phone or digital camera when we take photographs. Users’ place info remains saved in phone as your device has geo tagging services. Cyber criminal can easily take your info by matching data from GPS with the info of an image. These types of data are also used in tracking.

Almost all smartphone has facilities to remove geo tag metadata. To remove metadata from iPhone you need to go to settings and then to privacy. You will find there a location service option and just turn off GPS services. For android based device, you need to go to menu of phone camera and then go to gear icon and stop geo tag option.

Active Bluetooth can harm you:

According technologists, one can tack you by using Bluetooth technology. Cyber criminal can find your details info of your whereabouts if your Bluetooth settings are not changed properly. Even if your Bluetooth is on “non-discoverable mod” you are not safe at all. It is called “bluejacking” that’s mean criminal can inject tracking malware through Bluetooth. In that case, you should you password as safeguard. And, you should keep turn off you Bluetooth when unused.

Battery can be used as tracker:

Researchers warned that you could be tracked through phone battery. In this case, criminals can identify your whereabouts and movement by calculating the little difference of you phone’s charge. Hackers monitor your charging routing for some days and then when you go somewhere then they can identify difference in charging routing. In this way hackers easily track your movements. To collect this type of data hackers uses simple apps. Even google does not restrict to collect this type of data.

It is hard to identify whether you are being tracked through battery. It is easy to collect data if battery charge goes down. That’s why you should keep your batteries full charge. You may uninstall some apps those consumes much charge.