Simply launch this new app, and it will reveal all the apps on your phone that are spying on you as well as their developers
To find out which apps are tracking user data, we have a good tool. This tool is TrackerControl, an application that allows you to find out which apps are using so-called tracking to get data, as well as allow them to be blocked.
TrackerControl uses the comprehensive database of the X-Ray Project developed by Professor Max van Kleeck of the University of Oxford and other professors. This database gives us information about the companies behind these trackers. In addition, the application helps us to selectively block the people we want. In addition, it also seeks to inform and educate users about their legal rights under the new data protection law in Europe.
Thanks to TrackerControl, it will be possible to analyze all the applications installed on Android to see which of them use trackers, as well as to view the number of trackers used in each of them. It provides data on who is behind these trackers—another piece of information that we usually do not have access to, but now it will be possible.
Downloading TrackerControl is free on Android, although the application is not present in the Google Play Store. This application is still in the testing phase, but we can safely download its APK from GitHub from the link below. It is a very light APK, weighing barely 9.7 MB, which will hardly take up space on your phone. In addition, in its use it has not presented problems, so it seems as if it is a stable application.
Once you have downloaded the application on your phone, you will be able to see that TrackerControl has a very easy-to-use interface. The only thing we have to do when we open it is to turn on the switch at the top of the screen, which will then activate the application tracking. It will start searching for the applications we have installed and who is tracking us from them.
On the screen, we have a complete list of the applications we have installed. Under each of them, we can see how many trackers have been detected. The scan can take a few minutes, and in my case it took several minutes until the first trackers were detected.
In addition to showing what apps are tracking, TrackerControl allows you to block them manually. If you want to block them all, you can do so on the home screen, activating the switch next to each app. You can also get more information about these trackers by clicking on the name of the app.
Application link: TrackerControl