How to stop your smartphone from tracking your moves

If someone lost their phone, whoever found it would have access to their address and be able to look through the phone's history, says data security expert Tyler Wildman. All because of one option on smartphones and what's turned on under it. "It's uploaded instantly say through the cloud straight into the servers to see where their users are at and what they are doing and they claim it is for marketing purposes," Wildman said. "But many things that are for marketing purposes can be exploited in the hands of a hacker or data thief that may want to get a hold of where they are." "The worst part about it is it defaults to that, so it's not like the person decided they wanted to be tracked. It's that the assumption is they do want to be tracked," Wildman said.

So, what can consumers do to prevent tracking? You can turn off frequent locations and it will go away and you can also clear the history. To check if your smartphone is tracking you -- and you have an iPhone -- go to Settings, click on Location Services and you can see which apps are tracking your location. At the bottom under system services, check to see if frequent locations is turned on. You can turn it off and clear your history. If you want your map to work, keep location services on but just turn off frequent locations. Also, make sure you have a passcode on your phone to make it harder for some to gain access to your information.