app tracking
Software usage surveillance
App tracking is the practice of monitoring user activity across applications, typically to collect data for targeted advertising.
When apps track you, they gather information about your behavior, preferences, and movements between different services.
She disabled app tracking in her phone's privacy settings.
The term gained prominence when mobile operating systems began requiring apps to ask permission before tracking users.
- privacyFreedom from observation
- analyticsSystematic examination of datasets
- surveillanceSystematic observation of subjects
- cookiesSmall sweet baked goods
- data collectionSystematic accumulation of facts
personal data · permissions · data · fingerprinting · consent · monitoring · behavior · digital footprint · metrics · pixels · SDK · attribution · retargeting · ad targeting · mobile advertising · install · engagement · notification
- permissionsread, write, execute, delete, grant
- surveillancesurveillance, CCTV, security camera, surveillance camera, surveillance cameras
- workplace surveillancescreen recording, keyloggers, remote monitoring, bossware, productivity software
- web trackingcookies, pixels, third-party cookies, fingerprinting, web analytics
- app permissionscamera access, microphone access, network access, health data, biometrics
- theme park tipsearly entry, single rider, express pass, virtual queue
app trackingprivacy protection
Safeguarding personal information from exposure
data privacy · do not track · anti-tracking · opt-out · privacy mode
app trackinganonymous browsing
anonymity · untraceability · incognito mode · private browsing · masked identity