Description

Wi-Fi Privacy Police prevents your smartphone or tablet fromleakingprivacy sensitive information via Wi-Fi networks. It doesthis intwo ways: * It prevents your smartphone from sending outthe namesof Wi-Fi networks it wants to connect to over the air.This makessure that other people in your surroundings can not seethe networksyou've connecte to, and the places you've visited. *If yoursmartphone encounters an unknown access point with a knownname (forexample, a malicious access point pretending to be yourhomenetwork), it asks whether you trust this access pointbeforeconnecting. This makes sure that other people are not able tostealyour data. Wi-Fi Privacy Police does not have any negativeimpacton your battery. In fact, you may see your battery lifeincrease byusing this app. View our paperathttps://doclib.uhasselt.be/dspace/handle/1942/17224 formoretechnical information. Wi-Fi Privacy Police is an app developedatthe Expertise Center for Digital Media, a research instituteofUHasselt. It is open source, with its source code beingpubliclyavailable at https://github.com/BramBonne/privacypolice . Alot ofeffort went into making this app work flawlessly. If you,however,run into any problems when using this app, nor the appdevelopers,nor the UHasselt take responsibility. You are encouragedto reportany issues at [email protected] or viaGitHub athttps://github.com/BramBonne/privacypolice/issues/new ; wewill tryto fix them as soon as possible. Note to those usingCyanogenMod:make sure that Privacy Guard is not blocking access toWi-FiPrivacy Police, as it will then not be able to see theavailablenetworks. This will cause Wi-Fi Privacy Police to disableaccess toall of them.