Glad you're here with us on the Clark Howard Show where it's about you learning ways to

save more and spend the last.

And don't let anyone ever rip you off.

And you got a question for me, go to Clark.com slash ask.

Coming up later, I'm going to take a trip down memory lane going back one to two decades

and sharing with you things that used to be big problems we'd hear about on our show

that many don't even exist anymore and others that are oldy but baddies that have been problems

as long as I've been on the air since the 1980s and still are today.

I'm going to talk right now though about something that is a real intrusion on you.

To download apps on your iPhone or your Android and those apps become spies in your life.

You know those permissions we have to give?

Well, those permissions that we just by wrote go yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, give app producers

the ability to build dossiers on us and use that information to sell off to other people.

And the level of detail that these apps collect is very valuable to marketeers to various

companies and all the rest.

So I want you to know that you can tell pretty easily whether an app on your iPhone or your

Android is over sharing and sometimes it'll make sense for you to share.

For example, you're using a navigation program.

You got to let it know where you are, right?

But do you need to let everybody else know where you are for every other app you have on

your phone?

Nope.

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