Why Is It That When I Walk Out Of A Store I Have A Message On My Phone To Evaluate The....

[global1]

experience? How does the phone know I was in the store? How do I turn off that function on my phone to get some privacy?

[LuckyCharms]

1. Probably have to turn your location sensor off in your settings.

[FSogol]

2. "Hands off my data! 15 default privacy settings you should change right now"

Say no to defaults. A clickable guide to fixing the complicated privacy settings from Facebook, Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Apple.
by Geoffrey A. Fowler of the Washington Post.

Whole article here:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/06/01/hands-off-my-data-15-default-privacy-settings-you-should-change-right-now/?utm_term=.15bfbb3ddb02

This article might help. I'm limited to posting no more than 4 paragraphs, so tell me what kind of phone you have and I'll post that part.

[global1]

5. Samsung S7 Thru AT&T.....nt

[FSogol]

11. Since it is an android phone, the culprit is probably google

Google is keeping track of every phrase you've ever searched for, every site you’ve visited and every YouTube video you’ve watched … including the embarrassing ones.
On the Web, use this link to Google’s activity controls to turn off Web and App Activity.
While you’re there, scroll down and also turn off YouTube Search History and YouTube Watch History.
What you give up: You won’t be able to dig back up websites and videos you once visited, and Google’s systems won’t get to know you as well.

Google makes a map of everywhere you go that would make the CIA envious.
On the Web, at the same link for Google’s activity controls to turn off Location History.
There are several ways you might have turned on Location History. Google tells me that in the future, it will stop asking you to turn on this function when you initially set up its Assistant an Android phone. (Imagine that: a tech giant actually scaling back some data collection.)
What you give up: You won’t be able to walk down memory lane, and Google’s recommendations based on your travels won’t be as good.

While you’re at it, you can stop oversharing with Google’s advertisers.

Google helps marketers target you on Google-owned sites such as YouTube and Gmail.
On the Web, use this link for Ads Settings to turn off Ads personalization.
What you give up: You may see less “useful” ads, a concern for nobody anywhere ever.

The link mentioned is here:
https://myaccount.google.com/activitycontrols?pli=1

[Cartoonist]

3. Pay cash

The Deep State monitors all transactions.

[JI7]

7. It's not the credit card. It's the smartphone

[Cartoonist]

12. How does the phone know you made a purchase?

[FSogol]

14. It doesn't. It knows he went in the store. n/t

[Blue_Adept]

4. Which store? And what type of phone?

And do you have the app for that store?

Very curious myself as I've never had this happen to me.

[global1]

9. I've Been Very Leary About Adding Apps To My Phone....

because they seem to want permission to be able to use all my contacts. I feel that is an invasion of my and my contacts privacy - so I don't add Apps to my phone. As a result - I don't feel that I'm using the technology that I am carrying around in my pocket that my phone has the capabilities to give me.

I know that a lot of stores now have free wi-fi advertised. Is that how they are getting into my phone?

[FSogol]

13. They might have free wi-fi, but unless you told your phone to log into anything that is available,

you aren't connecting to their wifi. The defaults you accepted on your phone are providing the info.

[JI7]

6. Probably google maps or something similar

[edhopper]

8. If you have your

location on the store will know your location through wifi or 4g.

This is why Facebook puts posts with people's location without their knowing it.

Turn off your location unless you need it for Maps or directions.

[kentuck]

10. GPS?

Turn it off?

[dembotoz]

15. It's the phone

Know a company that sells ads when ur phone is within a certain distance. Think u had to opt in to loyalty program... not sure

[a kennedy]

16. I never use google as a search engine.....I always use

https://duckduckgo.com They don’t track you.

[Initech]

17. Turn off all your notifications. Especially Google Maps.

I turned them off after I noticed that too. It's very creepy.

[JDC]

18. You connected to the wifi or location settings and Ads are turned on for you.

My company sells Wifi. We option the ability for our patrons to push info i.e coupons, surveys, etc to patrons based on proximity as a feature.