With the spread of technology and its penetration among a wide range of users, the world of crime today has become more modern. Therefore, we decided to draw the attention of our followers and the owners of these technologies from the Arabs, and today we offer you how to stay safe from such crimes. And also help them increase privacy.

The most famous means of breaching privacy is the location feature, which has spread and now the vast majority of modern mobile devices now have a GPS and this feature is very useful as it enables your device to recognize your current location on the map anywhere in the world using Satellites, which helped us in the emergence of navigation apps, so that you can identify your destination while driving and show you how to reach the desired destination in the shortest possible time and without losing the road, and this technology was also used to identify your speed, which was built many Applications that care about fitness and calculate the amount of distance you traveled and the rate of burning your calories lost, and there are some applications that enable you to know the whereabouts of friends or users of this application around you and get to know them or know where you parked your car.

Despite the benefit of the location feature, some applications may exploit it in a way that may harm your privacy. Recently, a new group of applications appeared that show your location and send it automatically to be placed on your Facebook wall, for example you may notice that some of your friends are renewing the status and it appears below It was sent from such a restaurant or a hotel with the name of this restaurant or hotel they are in, which enables friends to know their whereabouts and get to know their favorite places or be close to their location and visit them, this is a wonderful feature that some restaurants or places may use to identify Most of them have customers who visit this place and reward them with some advantages or discounts, meaning that everyone can know if there is a friend near him or not.

But such technologies may be used in the world of crime, as someone may stalk you or steal your home while you are not in it, or he may snoop on your favorite places, penetrate your privacy and may use the information it collects about you in a dangerous and harmful way. Therefore, we would like to draw your attention to such things and how to avoid them, especially since some of these applications are popular and we use them on a daily basis such as Facebook, FourSquare or Gowalla and many similar applications, and you may wonder how to close such features or increase the degree of security?

You can modify the security and privacy settings and choose what you want when you register in such applications for the first time, which is similar to reading the catalog for a product before starting to use it, but most of us do not care to adjust these settings the first time from the beginning of use, and we will show an example of this in the FourSquare and Facebook applications After I used it.

FourSquare

For those who do not know this application, they log in to one of the places and share it with others, and in order to reach the privacy settings to adjust your level of security, you cannot do this through the application on your device, and you must visit The site of this application On the Internet and log in to your account then go to you can visit your privacy page from the settings or from here And adjust them to suit your needs.

There are some applications or sites that collect some of your data from Facebook, especially your site, which is published from time to time on your page, so you must isolate these applications or not share your location with your friends via Facebook.

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Facebook

Facebook is considered the worst in the field of privacy as many accuse it that it only cares about profit from the privacy of users, so those in charge of it seek to address this matter and change the privacy settings continuously to increase it, and privacy settings can be accessed directly via this link From your computer.

Adjust the privacy as per your convenience. You can also see which applications and programs can access your data via this link And adjust them as in the following picture:

It appears at the top that the application can access your site and publish it on Facebook, and perhaps this is not a problem in the case of the FourSquare application because its job that I agreed to is to know your location and share with others, but there are dozens of applications that we use on its devices and you request to log in to your Facebook account, you should review What you access, allow only what you want from the apps, and delete what you don't want.

Another way is to close the "Location Services" of any application that you do not need, such as the Facebook application on your device, which by determining your location, it adds it in everything you post and also in the conversations, which will disable the "check-in" feature and disable the ability to add your location. To your case. And that by going to Settings> Location Services:

The same thing is repeated with Twitter and all social applications in your device, so be careful, as it may unintentionally publish personal data from you that you do not prefer for anyone to know, so you may stay away from suspicious applications that deceive the user, but there may be a traditional application that asks to log in to the Facebook account and shows you That he will access personal data and can publish on your page, and because we do not care to read what appears in front of us, we agree to publish private data of our own free will.

Do you review privacy settings on social sites? Do you read well the warnings that appear in front of you, or do you agree directly without reading them? We shared your privacy experience on social sites
the source : Cultofmac

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