Protecting your privacy on your Smartphone.

  • Voice assist – when using voice assist (like Siri and Google Assist), they are listening for you to say the command word(s). “Hey Siri.” And sometimes it will pick up a conversation that is not necessarily triggered by the command due to hearing similar words.

We give a lot of trust and responsibility to these companies to be transparent in what they capture and collect.

You can turn off voice assist through your settings on your phone.

NOTE: Google Privacy Checkup shows you what it has recorded in the past, your web activity and your location. This service is available for any device, using Google or Youtube.

https://myaccount.google.com/intro/privacycheckup

  • Location services is another application that you can manage within your device settings. Turn off this feature for all apps that do not need location services to operate. Such as music apps, calculators. etc.
  • Use a password, on all your devices!