By removing a number of applications on your smartphone, you can turn off surveillance by those who collect information about subscribers by default for advertising purposes. The head of the IT department of the software developer Reksoft, Evgeny Chertok, spoke about this in an interview with the Prime agency.
The specialist clarified that if you install a traffic analyzer on your phone, you will see hundreds of unknown connections. Basically, data is collected on geolocation, search interests.
In order for the smartphone to transmit less information about you, you can turn off the mobile Internet, wi-fi and bluetooth, geolocation. However, it doesn’t make much sense. The data will be sent the next time the machine is turned on. Also, the phone can be detected through cell towers and visible wi-fi points, Chertok said.
“In the era of universal digitalization, privacy and personal data do not actually exist. Even if you give up your smartphone and buy a push-button phone, you can be tracked through a cellular operator, ”the expert added.
Earlier, a specialist in the press service of Roskachestvo, Alesya Borovikova, said that the increased consumption of Internet traffic is a sign that a virus has loaded onto the smartphone, in this case, you need to immediately turn off the Internet and the mobile phone itself.