Malloc’s app on Android devices now allows you to check where your apps send data. It indicates the domains they communicate and whether those domains are identified as spyware, data trackers, ads or suspicious domains.
We use so many apps for so many different things every day — we use apps to shop clothes, to order food, to read news and learn what’s happening in the word, to socialise to communicate with people. We use apps to pay for things, to get fit or even enjoy a better sleep. It is an apps-driven world.
But, can we trust these apps when it comes to our privacy?
Apps we use every day may collect data without your knowledge and share them with companies of unknown motives, typically focused on tracking users for targeted advertising or collect your the data to later sell them to third-party companies. In 2021, hundreds of well-known Android apps have been sending user location data to X-Mode. X-mode is a data broker known to sell location data to U.S. military contractors. More than 400 apps used X-Mode, including messaging apps, several dating sites, and religion and prayer apps including multiple Muslim prayer apps. X-Mode was also used in the New York Subway app. In fact, X-Mode’s chief executive Josh Anton revealed in 2021 that the data broker tracks 25 million devices in the U.S alone.
Of course you couldn’t know that a legit app sent your data to X-mode or any other tracker or data broker, because no one told you and no one explicitly asked you. In matter of fact, even if you knew you that an app was collecting and sharing your personal data, there was nothing you could do about it except of completely deleting the app.
BUT Malloc changed this and NOW YOU CAN! You can now find out where your apps send data. You can check if the apps you use send data to any trackers or suspicious domains and you can stop them. You can do this using Malloc: Privacy & Security app on Android.
Connect to one of the Malloc VPN servers, and detailed report on where your apps send data and stop them from sharing data with trackers and suspicious domains!
Try it out yourself — download the Malloc: Privacy & Security app from Google Play store.
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