12 tips to better protect your smartphone
Smartphones accompany us wherever we go. We also store a lot of important data and information on them. However, data protection is often neglected. In our weekly ranking, we present you with twelve tips on how you can better protect your data.
A life without a smartphone in the digital age? That’s almost unthinkable. Many of our everyday activities are firmly linked to our mobile phones and are based on important data.
Anyone who has ever been hacked knows how uncomfortable and dangerous it is when strangers have access to personal information. Regaining control is considered a lengthy process.
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Germans don’t care about privacy
One statistics shows that 68 percent of people do not believe that their data is safe on the Internet. Reason enough to take care of the security of your own information in advance.
But data protection is neglected by many people. According to a survey by the Internet Association Eco For example, only 45.9 percent of the people surveyed have set up a screen lock.
There is no 100% secure method
Data protection is more important than ever. Because many processes run partially or completely automatically in the background and reveal more about us than we would like. In addition, our data quickly falls into the hands of criminals and data collectors.
Twelve tips for data protection on the smartphone
Even small changes can make a big difference. In our weekly ranking we have twelve tips and tricks put together for you, with which you can better protect your data.
1. Disable location services
Location services are particularly useful for applications such as navigation apps. However, other apps such as Facebook and Co. also use the GPS location of the smartphone. And the mobile phone camera also calls up location information.
Smartphone users should therefore take a close look in the settings for which applications the location services are active. The feature should only be left enabled if it is absolutely essential to using a particular app.
1. Disable location services. (unsplash.com/Henry Perks)
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