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PRIVACY ALERT: If you have an iPhone or Android it could be tracking your every move, and heres how to tell and what to do.

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Is Your Smartphone Tracking Where You Go?

Here’s how to…

turn of location tracking with your iPhone or Android phone:

Click on Settings from your home screen.

Click Privacy.

Next, click on Location Services.

Scroll down to System Services.

Click on Frequent Locations, where you can clear the history of where you’ve been, and then turn off Frequent Locations.

For an Android: 

(Steps vary depending on phone model.)

Click on Settings from the home screen.

Click on Location preferences.

Disable the Google Location History and it will be turned off.

How to turn off Android location tracking

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