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    TrackerControl

    TrackerControl allows users to monitor and control the widespread, ongoing, hidden data collection in mobile apps about user behaviour ('tracking').

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    What is TrackerControl?

    TrackerControl aims to inform, empower, and educate users with regards to tracking in apps, that is, collection of data about user behaviour.

    To visualise this tracking, a compehensive database of tracker companies from the X-Ray project, developed by Professor Max Van Kleek (University of Oxford) and others, is used to reveal the companies behind tracking to users and to allow users to block tracking selectively.

    The app further aims to educate users about their legal rights under current EU Data Protection Law (i.e. GDPR and the ePrivacy Directive).

    Under the hood, Tracker Control uses Android’s VPN functionality, to analyse apps’ network communications locally on the Android device. This is accomplished through a local VPN server, through which all network communications are passed, to enable the analysis by Tracker Control. In other words, no external VPN server is used, and hence no network data leaves the user’s device for the purposes of tracker analysis.

    Tracker Control provides

    - real-time monitoring of app tracking,
    - granular blocking of app tracking,
    - access to apps’ privacy policy websites without trackers (which they often contain), and
    - one-click data requests as granted under EU Data Protection Legislation (to be added soon).

    Contrary to similar solutions, this application does not intercept SSL connections, minimising privacy risks and allowing for usage on unrooted Android devices. Only the meta data about network communications is logged, and displayed to the users.
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    • Top positive comment  over 1 year ago • 0 replies
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    It's controversial but I think Android is imperfect on security and privacy of data, a lot of things leak from phones and more with Google but thanks to applications like this one help to patch and see what leaks.

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    • Top positive comment  6 months ago • 0 replies
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    Must-have !

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    Way more granular than Lockdown in terms of blocking and unblocking and a lot easier to see what apps are connecting to what services.
    Positive comment • about 1 year ago • as an alternative to  Lockdown Privacy Lockdown Privacy

    android037 Blocking trackers will break things. This app makes it super easy to minimize whitelisting only what is needed, not entire apps. The traffic log super easy to read, catch those sneaky ones not even open but pinging home in background, stuff not listed in some large companies TOS.
    Positive comment • about 1 month ago • as an alternative to  Blokada Blokada

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    • tracker-analysis
    • Privacy Tool
    • gdpr
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    Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about TrackerControl, and it has gotten 14 likes

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    TrackerControl was added to AlternativeTo by Nonon on May 11, 2020 and this page was last updated Feb 9, 2021.

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