Every step is being monitored, every activity is being tracked

HIGHLIGHTS: With the help of location tracking in your mobile phone, your data is reaching everywhere.

You might not be aware that your every move is tracked. They are not any one or two companies, but many government and private companies are monitoring your every day activity. According to an Investigation by the New York Times, with the help of location tracking in your mobile phone, your data is reaching everywhere. According to this report, location data of millions of people in America is being collected. This data location is collecting data company which tracks the location of people's phones and later sells this data to marketers.

What is Location Tracking?

According to the news published in Livemint, there is a virtual map of every activity in your phone. Where you are going, how long you stayed there and after that where all the information remains in your phone. Your phone is connected to a cellular tower or WiFi, which has a fixed position on this map. This makes it easy to track the location of your phone. Every smartphone has a unique International Mobile Equipment Identity Number (IMEI) and each SIM has a specific International Mobile Subscriber Identity, which can be easily ascertained by whom the phone belongs to. In such a situation, your smartphone keeps the history of each of your locations.

Who does this location tracking?

Your telecom service provider can see all your locations in your phone. Apart from this, almost all the apps installed in your phone ask for permission to track your location. In such a situation, these apps have complete information about where you go every day. Google has a complete timeline of where you live.

Can the government track your location?

The government can ask any telecom company or any other company to share the location of a user under any suspicious circumstances. However, the new Personal Data Protection Bill allows that companies will have to give the data of any unknown user whenever the government needs it. The good thing about this bill is that the user name will not be mentioned with the data, but after reading the location data for a long time and mixing the location data with the data of other apps, it will be much easier to identify you.

How to stop this tracking?

If you are using a smartphone, then this is not a matter. There are many ways through which a hacker can turn on your location sharing without telling you. You can do this by not allowing apps to track location. For this, you can remove the data tracking permission of one or more apps by going to the settings of your Android phone. You can go to Myactivity.google.com and choose the activity control option, so that Google cannot track your location.

Source: Web