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Call it a tracker, not a phone -- that's more app


Skift Take

The genie is out of the bottle -- smartphones track your every movement for law enforcement and travel apps' developers purposes. The backlash is coming.

THE device in your purse or jeans that you think is a cellphone — guess again. It is a tracking device that happens to make calls. Let’s stop calling them phones. They are trackers.

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