Outwitting Smart Phone Privacy Pitfalls

Over the course of your day you check your email on your phone, send messages to friends and coworkers, look up the answer to a question, then go out for dinner at a restaurant where you used the QR code to download the menu. If you have a health app, your phone knows your heart rate and how often you work out. Map apps, fitness apps, games, and social media platforms track your location 24/7 (or may want to). Web browsers, search engines, and messaging apps may share data about your browsing, searches, and conversations. If your phone or apps are hacked, your camera or microphone can be accessed without you knowing it-meaning your phone can be used to record pictures, audio, and video of you and your conversations. Your phone can track who was nearby you-and for how long, and when, and where you were.

Your phone can show others what you have done, when you did it, what you said and what you looked like, and where you were when that happened. Others just need to know how to get it.

Technological breakthroughs lead to legal issues, and the smart phone is no exception. For litigators, location information, call logs, and text messages in the phone, or at the phone company, can potentially be accessed by authorities looking for information regarding a specific case. This creates all kinds of privacy pitfalls for attorneys and their clients.

Join the expert as we look at how to best protect ourselves from these pitfalls.