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Your phone may be sharing data without your awareness.
Certain data sharing is necessary, but some can affect your privacy.
Review and block any unnecessary app permissions and data access.
You may think that your smartphone falls asleep and remains inactive during the night when you're in bed and not using it for hours. But that's not the case. Your phone takes advantage of this downtime to share bits of data with the device's manufacturer and other parties. And that could be both good and bad, according to NordVPN.
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Much of this information needs to be sent to the manufacturer to keep your device up to date and functioning properly. With that goal in mind, your phone might share any of the following tidbits:
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