Washington Post finds 5,400 app trackers sending data from an iPhone

9to5 Mac ^ | May. 28th 2019 7:44 am PT | Ben Lovejoy

[TalBlack]

If I put my Galaxy 5 down on my desk at, say, 85% battery and leave it there all day it barely loses any batt life. If I start a walk down Broadway in NY at 85% in an hour it’s almost dead.

[1Old Pro]

I noticed significant drain last week. I stopped all the apps, especially messenger. Battery now lasts 100x as long.

[arthurus]

Ten years ago I was watching a group of 20 or so yutes on the sidewalk at the beach all walking together. Every one of them had a cell phone pasted to the side of his face. I wondered if they were talking to each other like maybe they had forgotten how to talk without electronics.

[upchuck]

Turning it off would work too as would not carrying one!

Your smartphone is never off, even after you turn it off. From the article:

Even though the screen is off and I’m snoring, apps are beaming out lots of information about me to companies I’ve never heard of.

The beauty of a Faraday Cage, the products at the link, that the signal is blocked by the cage. No signals in, no signals out.

[Skywise]

The SCREEN is off.

Like a computer, even in sleep mode, it’s still “on” and running background tasks.

Powering off the phone will stop all activity.

[avenir]

"It’s why, after a 90 minute commute, my wife puts dinner on the table seconds before I get into the house."

You done good 👍

[wally_bert]

I have to mail a check every so often.

[Swordmaker]

If I put my Galaxy 5 down on my desk at, say, 85% battery and leave it there all day it barely loses any batt life. If I start a walk down Broadway in NY at 85% in an hour it’s almost dead.

Android apps do the same things with sending out data only a lot worse. Apple has severe locks on user privacy that Android does not enforce.

[itsahoot]

I wondered if they were talking to each other like maybe they had forgotten how to talk without electronics.

Watch a couple of kid setting in a booth texting each other using speech to text.

[TheBattman]

Also makes you wonder if the “journalist” in question allowed all permissions. For example, apps now are required to give the option of whether an app can have access to your location (location services). They are required to ask for permission when you first launch the app. Further, you can turn off data to individual apps, as well as change the location services permissions at any time.

[upchuck]

Believe what you will. Do some research.

[Skywise]

Oh yeah... Shep Shep... I take his word.

I’m an actual engineer pal but please continue wearing your tinfoil hat.

[Swordmaker]

Believe what you will.

On an iPhone powering it off, powers it off. Multiple studies have proved no radio signals in or out. It’s off, Jim.

[ezo4]

I have been in high tech for a long time - Microsoft, Apple, US Gov, Cyber Crime organizations protecting major financial companies around the globe.

If you give people control of admin access and something they can take power over other people with out you knowing about they will abuse it massively. People are very sneaky and will stab you in the back if they get power and or money.

There is more going on with your super computers in your pocket, purses and night stands than you realize.

[Red Badger]

That’s why I don’t have one....................

[JimRed]

How can we load our I-Phones with false data to mess with them?

[JimRed]

When I tell people I have no cell phone of ANY kind, they look at me like I have a third eye...

If you don't ever NEED prompt communication and never expect to be in any emergency situation, you don't need one. Until you do.

[Red Badger]

There have been a couple of times, but they are so ubiquitous, all I had to do was ask someone..................