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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
January 16, 2020
F-Droid is a free software community app store that has been working since 2010 to make all forms of tracking and advertising visible to users. It has …