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Shelter: Isolate Big Brother apps - Take back control! (Part 7)
1. Big Data
The collection, processing and analysis of as much information as possible is Big Data’s core business. In this non-transparent data processing, which is determined by algorithms, personal rights are hardly taken into consideration. This dilemma becomes particularly clear in the Android world: Apps access personal data uninhibitedly and send it unsolicited to the most diverse protagonists. This is exactly what the article series “Take back control!” wants to protect against.
Another piece of the puzzle to achieve this goal is the App Shelter, which locks selected Android apps in a sandbox, depriving them of access to phone books, calendars, images and other data. Curious apps can thus be denied access to sensitive user data.
💡 This article is part of a series of articles:
✅ Android without Google: Take back control! Part 1
✅ LineageOS - Take back control! Part2
✅ Magisk: By the power of Root - Take back control! Part 3 (not yet translated)
✅ AFWall+: Digital Door Controller - Take back control! Part 4
✅ F-Droid: Free and Open Source Apps - Take back control! Part 5
✅ AdAway: Advertising and tracking blocker - Take back control! Part 6
✅ Shelter: Isolate Big Brother apps - Take back control! Part 7
2. Shelter
Shelter is an open source app for Android that can be downloaded from the App-Store F-Droid. Alternatively the app can be downloaded via GitHub or the Google Play Store.
To separate apps, Shelter uses the Android work profiles that Google introduced as early as 2015 to separate private data from business content or apps. The work profile is a specially isolated area in which, for example, data-hungry apps can be stored. In addition to the normal environment in which all apps are normally located, Shelter creates another workspace that is logically separated from the other workspace. From this bunker (Shelter) apps can not access data which are in the normal environment - but all data of apps which are also stored or locked in the Shelter.
👉🏼 Read the fully translated guide:
https://rwtxt.lelux.fi/blackbox/shelter-isolate-big-brother-apps-take-back-control-part-7
👉🏼 Source 🇩🇪:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/shelter-big-brother-apps-isolieren-take-back-control-teil7/
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1. Big Data
The collection, processing and analysis of as much information as possible is Big Data’s core business. In this non-transparent data processing, which is determined by algorithms, personal rights are hardly taken into consideration. This dilemma becomes particularly clear in the Android world: Apps access personal data uninhibitedly and send it unsolicited to the most diverse protagonists. This is exactly what the article series “Take back control!” wants to protect against.
Another piece of the puzzle to achieve this goal is the App Shelter, which locks selected Android apps in a sandbox, depriving them of access to phone books, calendars, images and other data. Curious apps can thus be denied access to sensitive user data.
💡 This article is part of a series of articles:
✅ Android without Google: Take back control! Part 1
✅ LineageOS - Take back control! Part2
✅ Magisk: By the power of Root - Take back control! Part 3 (not yet translated)
✅ AFWall+: Digital Door Controller - Take back control! Part 4
✅ F-Droid: Free and Open Source Apps - Take back control! Part 5
✅ AdAway: Advertising and tracking blocker - Take back control! Part 6
✅ Shelter: Isolate Big Brother apps - Take back control! Part 7
2. Shelter
Shelter is an open source app for Android that can be downloaded from the App-Store F-Droid. Alternatively the app can be downloaded via GitHub or the Google Play Store.
To separate apps, Shelter uses the Android work profiles that Google introduced as early as 2015 to separate private data from business content or apps. The work profile is a specially isolated area in which, for example, data-hungry apps can be stored. In addition to the normal environment in which all apps are normally located, Shelter creates another workspace that is logically separated from the other workspace. From this bunker (Shelter) apps can not access data which are in the normal environment - but all data of apps which are also stored or locked in the Shelter.
👉🏼 Read the fully translated guide:
https://rwtxt.lelux.fi/blackbox/shelter-isolate-big-brother-apps-take-back-control-part-7
👉🏼 Source 🇩🇪:
https://www.kuketz-blog.de/shelter-big-brother-apps-isolieren-take-back-control-teil7/
#android #NoGoogle #guide #part1 #part2 #part4 #part5 #part6 #part7 #kuketz
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