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emanuele-f / PCAPdroid

No-root network monitor, firewall and PCAP dumper for Android
https://emanuele-f.github.io/PCAPdroid
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Expose apps' accessed data types #240

Open kasnder opened 2 years ago

kasnder commented 2 years ago

Hello,

PCAPDroid is a great tool. Especially with the new TLS decryption functionality it promises to help the investigation of apps' data practices a lot.

One feature that seems to be missing (and I've been talking to quite a few people about this) is an ability to get insights into what types of data get shared by apps.

This feature would be enormously helpful for researchers, journalists and NGOs seeking to investigate apps' data practices.

emanuele-f commented 2 years ago

Hi, do you mean something like domain classification to outline, for example, analytics domains?

kasnder commented 2 years ago

I mean something like Android Advertising ID, IMEI, Android ID, current location, phone numbers.

emanuele-f commented 2 years ago

Yeah, it would be useful to show this info. Do you already have some ideas on how to implement this? Does it require additional permissions for PCAPdroid?