The Default Tech Settings You Should Turn Off Right Away
By Brian X. Chen
There's a catchy saying going around with a valuable lesson about our
personal technology: "The devil is in the defaults."
The saying refers to the default settings that tech companies embed
deep in the devices, apps and websites we use. These settings
typically make us share data about our activities and location. We can
usually opt out of this data collection, but the companies make the
menus and buttons hard to notice, likely in the hope that we don't
immediately tweak them.
These controls, which are buried inside products from Apple, Google,
Meta and others, make us share more data than we need to.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/27/technology/personaltech/default-settings-turn-off.html
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