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Stuart Burns

Every tap, every message – how to stop your smartphone spying on you

Photograph of a hand holding a smartphone with two googly eyes.
Data Privacy Week 2025
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If you didn’t know already, now you do – it’s Data Privacy Week (January 27 to 31)! The brainchild of the National Cybersecurity Alliance, it aims to arm you with everything you need to spot and avoid the biggest risks to your data privacy and “Take control of your data”.

They're more than just communication devices – they're hubs for our personal data, holding everything from snapshots of our lives to bank details and text chains. With so much sensitive information in the palm of our hands, it's only natural to wonder: are our smartphones spying on us?

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