Source :  Intermet 

5G Smartphone is one innocent-looking everyday tech gadget that are actually tracking you

As of today  September 2025 , if there's a single gadget that takes the gold medal for spying, it's your 5G smartphone. It contains more information about you than your family, friends, and probably even you yourself.

Think about it: your 5G phone knows everywhere you've been, thanks to GPS, Wi-Fi, and 5G cell towers. It knows what you search, what you watch, who you talk to, and how often. Every app you install is another surveillance pipeline. Some apps track your location even when you're not using them. Others scrape your contacts, your photos, your microphone, your accelerometer—yes, even how fast you're walking.

And don't think adjusting a few settings saves you.  5G Phones are designed to track. The operating system, the carrier, the apps—they all want a slice of your life. That's why I laugh when people say, "I've got nothing to hide." Because, realistically, you couldn't hide much even if you tried.

Yet, year after year, we queue up for the newest model, grinning as we carry around what is essentially a state-of-the-art tracking device—one we paid for ourselves.

The strangest part is how normal all of this feels now. It's not that companies are twirling their mustaches in some dark room, plotting against us—it's that we always click or tap "Agree." Buried inside those endless terms of service, consent hides in paragraphs of legalese most of us either skim or skip entirely. We just want our gadgets to work, to stay updated, and to "improve." So we shrug, stick with the defaults, and keep moving. The alternative, of course, is to walk away from these devices altogether. In the end, it's really your call either way.