Monday, 15 December 2014

Tips to Avoid Leaking the Location History of Wi-Fi on Android Devices!



Everyone in this world wants to keep some of their information secret. The technology infiltration has made it difficult to protect your privacy and data security. Some android applications use third party advertisements to get our private data. Beware of such third party applications. Instead, you can trust some of the best android apps in the play store which are absolutely safe to use. The security concerns are always seen with the devices connected with internet.

Using Wi-Fi is pretty good and it can fetch you the data at lightening speed. There are many other advantages of using Wi-Fi over regular data in your mobile. But are you aware of the fact that your location can be traced if your Wi-Fi is on? If you are not, you can face serious problems by displaying the location.
 
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Dangers that you can face:
By leaving the traces of the history location over Wi-Fi, the third parties can easily fetch your data from your android mobile by implementing various techniques. Your data such as contact list, online surfing data, accounts and passwords, exact location etc. can be traced by the hackers. Beware!

Tips to avoid leaking of Wi-Fi location: 

  • Navigate your settings >> Wi-Fi settings
  • Go to advanced Wi-Fi settings
  • Select 'Keep Wi-Fi on During Sleep' option
  • Change the option of 'Always' to 'Never'

By following these tips you can easily avoid your data to expose to third parties through Wi-Fi location. Besides the above-mentioned tips, make sure that you turn off the Wi-Fi when not in use. This will give the android phone more security to maintain your data secure.

Ever since the Google has updated the 3.1 version of Android, there are no complaints about such problems. The android mobile application development from the experts have made it possible to fix such bugs. But it would be far better if you follow the tips in the blog to be on a safer side.