“The way you press, scroll and type on a phone screen or keyboard can be as unique as your fingerprints or facial features. To fight fraud, a growing number of banks and merchants are tracking visitors’ physical movements as they use websites and apps. Some use the technology only to weed out automated attacks and suspicious transactions, but others are going significantly further, amassing tens of millions of profiles that can identify customers by how they touch, hold and tap their devices.” (It’s all about perspective. On the same day last week, my kids made fun of me for how slowly I text and my mom complimented me on how fast I text.) NYT: Banks and Retailers Are Tracking How You Type, Swipe and Tap. (Today, this tracking is to protect you. Tomorrow, who knows…)

+ “If you’re going to allow users to turn off something called ‘Location History,’ then all the places where you maintain location history should be turned off. That seems like a pretty straightforward position to have.” Google has a different position. According to AP. Google tracks your movements, like it or not. (Google probably thinks I left my phone on the couch in like 2012…)