7 Just By Using a Smartphone
Even if all of your apps have no Location Services access, your smartphone is still tracking you. That’s just a simple byproduct of owning and using a smartphone — and whether that’s concerning or not depends on how much you trust your phone’s manufacturer.
Firms like Google are notorious for collecting location data (and sharing data with advertisers). Apple is quite a bit better in this regard and makes sure that location data is either kept private or anonymized. But keep in mind that even Apple says it may still share some of that data with “partners.”