Android app that notifies

Android app that notifies you whenever GPS enabled apps access your location

A team of Researchers at Rutgers University has developed an Android application which will ...

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They have used a method called,'Heuristic Discovery of Location Access' which will calculate changes in the value of 'getLastKnownLocation' variable by any GPS enabled app to detect them.

"As it turns out, there is no obvious way for a normal Android app to monitor whether other apps are accessing location. However, we discovered we could exploit the method getLastKnownLocation available in the Android Location API for this purpose as an effective side channel."

But at this point, it is not clear that how much this app is accuratly able to catch the 'Location accessing' apps and the method they have mentioned could be limited to the foreground applications (the apps with a user is interacting at that time) only, rather than detecting apps while accessing your location silently in the background.

According to a study, 74% of Smartphone users use a location based service like Facebook, Whataspp, Snapchat etc. Such Security applications with detection features are the demand of time so that users can keep an eye on each and every event to protect their privacy. The app should be available on Google Play within the next two months.