March 2, 2021
There is a giant problem with the “collect it all” status quo that pervades on the Internet, this has been clear for a long time. Tracking …
February 18, 2021
Usability triggered a revolution in computing, taking arcane number crunching machines and making them essential tools in so many human endeavors, …
February 10, 2021
Greetings, all. I hope this finds you healthy and well, finding ways to enjoy the season (whichever it may be). While everyday still provides new …
December 15, 2020
A central focus of the Tracking the Trackers project has been to find simple ways to detect whether a given Android APK app file contains code which …
December 11, 2020
There is a new story to add to the list of horrors of Surveillance Capitalism: the United States’ Military is purchasing tracking and location …
December 7, 2020
There are many ways to get the apps and media, even when the Internet is expensive, slow, blocked, or even completely unavailable. Censorshop …
May 6, 2020
As part of the Tracking the Trackers project, we are inspecting thousands of Android apps to see what kinds of tracking we can find. We are looking at …
April 28, 2020
One key component of the Tracking the Trackers project is building a machine learning (ML) tool to aide humans to find tracking in Android apps. One …
April 23, 2020
Crowdsourced translation platforms like Weblate, Transifex, Crowdin, etc. have proven to be a hugely productive way to actively translate apps and …
April 9, 2020
There has been increasing interest in the possibilities of tracking people who are infected with Coronavirus using all of the various methods that …