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Your smartphone apps are tracking your every move – 4 essential reads

  • Written by Jeff Inglis, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation US
If you feel like you're being watched, it could be your smartphone spying on you.Jakub Grygier/Shutterstock.com

If you have a smartphone, it probably is a significant part of your life, storing appointments and destinations as well as being central to your communications with friends, loved ones and co-workers. Research and investigative reporting c...

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