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The Search for Ethical Apps: Let's start with governments

September 1, 2022

Governments across the world are moving services to mobile apps. The vast majority of these apps are only available in the Google Play store or in the …

New insights into clean analytics

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 …

Usability: the wonderful, powerful idea that betrayed us

February 18, 2021

Usability triggered a revolution in computing, taking arcane number crunching machines and making them essential tools in so many human endeavors, …

Clean Insights: February 2021 Update on Privacy-Preserving Measurement

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 …

New Data Sources: API Key Identifiers and BroadcastReceiver Declarations

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 …

εxodus ETIP: The Canonical Database for Tracking Trackers

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 …

Easy translation workflows and the risks of translating in the cloud

June 8, 2020

Crowdsourced translation has opened up software and websites to whole new languages, regions, and uses. Making translating easier has brought in more …

On the classification of tracking

May 20, 2020

This position paper tries to outline a framework for defining trackers in smart phones and lists mechanisms for identifying them. It hopes to serve as …

"Features" for Finding Trackers

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 …

The Promise and Hazards of COVID Contact Tracing Apps

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 …