🔧 How I Built a Static APK Analyzer That Detects Hidden Tracker SDKs in Android Apps, APK integrity checks, and what 3,745 real scans revealed.

Google Play has a Data Safety section. Developers fill it out themselves. Nobody verifies it.

A Mozilla study from 2023 found that over 80% of privacy labels on the Play Store are inaccurate or incomplete. The same conclusion came from Oxford in 2018 and MIT researchers since. There is no penalty for a developer who lies about data collection....