I tried Lockdown, the cool new iPhone app that reveals who’s secretly tracking you. Here’s what I discovered.
. “This means you can prove our privacy policy that we do not log or collect any data from users except to run the service, and we have zero access to it,” Dewan explains.
I tried Lockdown on my iPhone over a period of three weeks and have to say I was impressed. The VPN was pretty quick and I didn’t notice a lag. In order to put the firewall aspect to the test, I also reinstalled the Where do the trackers come from? But the trackers originate not just from the Facebook and Google apps; they are embedded inside other apps you use every day, as well as the websites you visit on Apple Safari and other browsers.
“They silently collect data on what you're looking at, your actions–every swipe, tap, and button click–your location, and more,” Johnny Lin , cofounder and CTO at Lockdown told me. “When this data is collected, it's sent out to advertisers, data brokers, and analytics companies,” Lin says. “By collecting this data on individuals from different sources, these companies build super-specific ‘shadow’ profiles of each individual.
The profiles contain what you like and dislike, as well as frankly creepy details such as what time you wake up, who you're connected to and in what way, where you live and the places you go, your diet, and even extremely sensitiveBreaking down my block logI asked Lin to break down my block log and this is what he told me:
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