Your Smartphone Knows Too Much: The Everyday Apps Quietly Watching You
Smartphones were once sold as tools of empowerment—pocket-sized computers that put information, productivity, and connection at our fingertips. Over time, however, they have quietly evolved into something else: sophisticated data harvesting devices. While users focus on convenience, entertainment, and social connection, many apps operate behind the scenes, collecting far more personal information than is strictly necessary for their core functionality. The uncomfortable truth is that data has become the most valuable currency of the digital economy. Your location, browsing habits, messages, photos, voice recordings, and even behavioral patterns are continuously logged, analyzed, packaged, and monetized. And much of this happens … Read more
