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How To Limit App Transparency Tracking Across Apps On Android by Philipdino: 10:56am On May 26, 2021
It’s no doubt The best friend and companion Smartphones have become in our lives lately, such that it’s nolonger used primarily for making and receive of phone calls from friends and loved once but also for communication via a wide range of crossed multiple social platforms as well as a function medium for a whole other activities extending as far as health monitoring on mobile apps.


What is App Transparency Tracking?


When you install a new app and the app request some specific data to be permitted before running the app such as allowing the app to monitor your other background app activities or its request you enable your location access GPS and others alike.

Although we personally allow such access to most of these apps while some other apps such as Facebook do not seek this consent before turning these smartphone features into spy agents.

Meanwhile as the users of smartphone increases every day and it’s users have access to the internet like it suppose to, privacy and security concerns come to the forefront noting that not all apps and their developer have the interest of specifically monitoring it users privacy for any negative intention, some are just for marketing analysis and to better channel the rights ads of interest to you.



However, how much of your privacy � should you grant this apps access knowing It just so happens that most apps on your smartphone could be secretly extracting some basic or specific info from your device just for the sole purpose of monetization like targeted ads, etc even when as a user you might not be interested.

Report Analysis

In 2018, more than 250 apps on Google play and Apple App store were enlisted for background audio snooping using smartphones microphones, thereby allowing these apps to to know what it’s users were watching or listening to. Based on that, Apple recent iOS 14.5 updates also affected Apple Apples Transparency Feature. Though the coming wide rollout of Android 12 suggests it will tackle the same issue like Apple did in iOS 14.5. But before then what can you do ensure apps Transparency feature.

How To Limit Android Apps From Spying on you

There are several ways every smartphone users can take to protect themselves from being monitored and it starts from knowing which apps have the right usage permission of data.

Learn more below
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