Hide Me

What does this privacy tool protect you against?

Your phone needs to know where it is so that it can make and receive calls and help some apps work better (like maps, or tagging your photos with a location). You may have heard of GPS (global positioning system), which most smartphones use. There are other ways that your phone can figure out where you are, too.

How can you apply Hide Me privacy tools?

1. Know how to turn off the ways that your phone knows where you are when it doesn’t need to know: this means turning off the GPS, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi when you aren’t using them. If your phone doesn’t know where you are, neither will the apps installed on your phone.

2. Know which apps share your location with others. For example, it’s very possible that the photos you take with your phone say when and where you took them.

Time to do a little investigation of your own!

Read these articles:

http://sciencewithkids.com/science-facts/Bluetooth.html
http://www.funkidslive.com/learn/techno-mum/wifi-wonders/
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/gps/en/

Using a smartphone (your own or one your teacher provided), find the icons (pictures) that stand for Wi-Fi, GPS and Bluetooth.

How do you turn WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth off and on? When would you want to have those turned on, and when would you want them turned off?