Privacy – a seven-letter word that means so much

Privacy. Just a small seven-letter word that most people don’t think they have a problem with. As a matter of fact, most people probably don’t think about it at all. Maybe this is something that we should all reconsider, and it starts with the little area in your cell phone/tablet settings that reads “Location.”

According to the Pew Research Center, 90 percent of adult Americans have cell phones (for people under the age of 44, the number is more like 97 percent); 64 percent of those users own smart phones, and 42 percent of adult Americans own tablets. Many of us think that by turning off the...