Methods and measurement.
A number without a method behind it is a marketing claim. These are the posts about where the numbers come from.
Privacy reporting has a credibility problem, and most of it is self-inflicted. Counts get quoted without saying what was counted, studies get cited for conclusions they did not draw, and store-page privacy labels are treated as verified facts when they are developer self-declarations.
The posts here deal with methodology: how tracker counts are built and where they break, what the academic literature actually found, and what consent frameworks do and do not change. The quarterly research editions carry the larger data sets.
Everything filed under research
GDPR Compliance Audits Cost Businesses €83,000 on Average. The Apps on Your Phone Would Fail in Minutes.
Most Android apps would fail a GDPR compliance check within minutes. Here's what the regulation actually requires and why your apps ignore it.
The GDPR consent screen is not a privacy protection
Most Android apps show GDPR consent dialogs, but 83% still share data before you click anything. Here's why compliance theater fails users.
App stores lie. Here's what four studies actually say.
Four independent studies of Google Play and iOS app listings. Different samples, different methods, same answer: the labels don't match the code.
How machine learning is changing Android security, and what we're building
ML detects what static analysis misses. How we train models on real Android scan data to find tracker-permission combos, fake APKs, and cross-app surveillance.
Common questions
Where does the underlying data come from? +
From on-device analysis of the installed packages themselves, aggregated across scans. That means the corpus reflects the apps people actually run rather than a scripted crawl of store listings, which is a strength for relevance and a limit for coverage. Both are worth stating.
Other topics
Check your own apps.
The analysis runs on your device, against the bytecode of the packages you already have installed. No account, no sign-in.
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