I have 70+ applications on my Android phone and I use few of them frequently, such as Messenger apps (WhatsApp, Skype & Telegram), News, Shopping, Entertainment & Productivity apps . Everything else just sits idle on my phone and wait for their call.
During a random audit of apps permissions on my phone, it was identified that there are MANY apps that are tracking my location all the time. In other words, tracking my movements all the time. They are legitimate apps and they already know how many times I’ve been out from my home during COVID-19 lock down period and which shop I went to purchase something. So, let’s see how did I reset apps permissions and stopped them from tracking my location all the time. This appears be a start of implementing RBAC (Role based access control) in personal tech, which is good thing. 🙂
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