Under Privacy and security, click Site settings. 
Click Advanced in the left sidebar, and click Privacy & security. To manage your location sharing preferences: You can choose to allow or deny access to your location, and Opera will remember your choice for future visits to that site. By default, Opera asks you if you’d like to share your location the first time you visit a site that requests it. Setting location sharing preferences gives you control over how sites access your location. Opera will not share this information without your permission. You can choose whether or not to share your location when browsing. To do this, these sites may ask you to allow geolocation on the page. If it doesn't, ask yourself why it would need access.Some sites may ask to use your location to provide localized features, such as reviews for nearby shops or coupons from businesses located in your area. If an app has a clear reason to save files to, or get them from your If you don't think an app needs access to yourĬontacts, leave this permission turned off and help protect your family andīanking details, tax information, passwordsĪnd other private information might be stored in a file or folder on yourĭevice. It can upload phone numbers, email accounts and other information to anĪdvertising or phishing scam list. Once an app has access to your contact list, To and where you live, they can build a detailed personal profile about you. Many others, particularly social media, let you tag your location, either for organisation (think sorting photos from a holiday) or social media bragging, among other things.īut there are plenty of apps that don't need it at all. Apps for navigation and maps obviously need your Location tracking is one of the more common However, app makers could use your microphone to record conversations as wellĪs what music, movies or TV shows you enjoy and sell that data to advertisers or use it to steal personal information for identity theft, fraud or to trick you into giving up account passwords. Recorders and any app that has voice input needs your device's microphone. Others, such as image editors, need to import pics from your albums.īut this might also mean a malicious app could access photos to sell as Turn your camera on and off in the background and take pictures or video But this might also mean that a malicious app can If an app can take pictures or video, it needs Some permissions can be more dangerous to give out than 
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