Reporting Elections, Safety and Security of Journalists

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Voice or speech recognition
(Web)camera
Screen recording
Call logs or call history
Phone
Calendar
Email
Pictures
Movies or videos, and their libraries
Fingerprint reader
Near field communications (NFC)
Bluetooth
Any setting with “disk access,” “files,” “folders,” or
“system” in it
Any setting with “install” in it
Facial recognition
Allowed to download other apps

2. TURN OFF LOCATION AND WIPE HISTORY
Get in the habit of turning off location services overall, or
when you are not using them, for your whole device as
well as for individual apps.
Regularly check and clear your location history if you
have it turned on. Location settings may be in slightly
different places on different Android devices, but are
probably somewhere in Settings, Privacy, and/or Security
as well as your Google account preferences.
3. SET YOUR SCREEN TO SLEEP AND LOCK
Set your screen to lock a short time after you stop using
it (try setting it to 1 minute or 5 minutes and see which

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