Wi-Fi Privacy Police

Wi-Fi Privacy Police Free App

Rated 4.22/5 (1,186) —  Free Android application by UHasselt - Expertise Centre for Digital Media

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About Wi-Fi Privacy Police

Wi-Fi Privacy Police prevents your smartphone or tablet from leaking privacy sensitive information via Wi-Fi networks. It does this in two ways:

* It prevents your smartphone from sending out the names of Wi-Fi networks it wants to connect to over the air. This makes sure that other people in your surroundings can not see the networks you've connecte to, and the places you've visited.
* If your smartphone encounters an unknown access point with a known name (for example, a malicious access point pretending to be your home network), it asks whether you trust this access point before connecting. This makes sure that other people are not able to steal your data.

Wi-Fi Privacy Police does not have any negative impact on your battery. In fact, you may see your battery life increase by using this app.

View our paper at https://doclib.uhasselt.be/dspace/handle/1942/17224 for more technical information.

Wi-Fi Privacy Police is an app developed at the Expertise Center for Digital Media, a research institute of UHasselt. It is open source, with its source code being publicly available at https://github.com/BramBonne/privacypolice .

A lot of effort went into making this app work flawlessly. If you, however, run into any problems when using this app, nor the app developers, nor the UHasselt take responsibility. You are encouraged to report any issues at uhasselt.edm.developer@gmail.com or via GitHub at https://github.com/BramBonne/privacypolice/issues/new ; we will try to fix them as soon as possible.

Note to those using CyanogenMod: make sure that Privacy Guard is not blocking access to Wi-Fi Privacy Police, as it will then not be able to see the available networks. This will cause Wi-Fi Privacy Police to disable access to all of them.

How to Download / Install

Download and install Wi-Fi Privacy Police version 2.2.4 on your Android device!
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Android package: be.uhasselt.privacypolice, download Wi-Fi Privacy Police.apk

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App History & Updates

What's Changed
Maintenance release
* Updated translations.
* Added proper support for handling Android's background scanning when Wi-Fi is disabled
Version update Wi-Fi Privacy Police was updated to version 2.2.4
More downloads  Wi-Fi Privacy Police reached 100 000 - 500 000 downloads
Version update Wi-Fi Privacy Police was updated to version 2.2.3
More downloads  Wi-Fi Privacy Police reached 50 000 - 100 000 downloads

What are users saying about Wi-Fi Privacy Police

H70%
by H####:

This app doesn't have internet permission so you can trust it and can't spy on you or send your location to anywhere but please check full permissions in every update :)

M70%
by M####:

Piece of dirt.. Shut down my wifi.. And wouldn't allow me to open it!.. Junk pile for you buddy!

S70%
by S####:

Not sure how I feel about the location permission though.

M70%
by M####:

Killing my battery for no known reason.

M70%
by M####:

Solve my ghost push problem no more pop-up ads thanks a lot

Z70%
by Z####:

It would be nice if I could back up all of the data on my old phone and move it to the new one

C70%
by C####:

Very Useful App To Increase WiFi Access-Point Security, By Allowing Only Your Own Approved WiFi-AP Be Allowed For Access WiFi By Your Phone :)

T70%
by T####:

Works as advertised

W70%
by W####:

I use to love this app with Kitkat. Now with Marshmallow it requires location on to allow me to connect to wifi. I even turned off the privacy protection that requires it. It's not as much this app but other apps that will use location services when it is turned on, evading my privacy and defeating the purpose of this app.

H70%
by H####:

Is this still supported? I had a few issues preventing me using wifi and had to remove it. I would love to have this thing back though.

M70%
by M####:

With Android 6, requires location services to be on. With location services on, I give up privacy and battery life. Sad to see this application go.

M70%
by M####:

Keeps disconnecting me from my home wifi. Used to work well until an update. Please help!

M70%
by M####:

Works as advertised on Nexus 6 Android N Beta testing on project fi etc..

M70%
by M####:

Nice background app that only asks about unknown WiFi connections. I am glad it has no ads to bother me. UPDATE: 6/27/16: past 2 months I've been experiencing higher data usage. I am home 80% of the time. for some reason, maybe a recent update, I've been locked out of my FIOS router on my SG7 edge. T-mobile said congestion, yet my iPad on the same network and account was consistently connected. Turned off Privacy Police and VOILA!

M70%
by M####:

Not since location required. Please release pre and post marshmallow versions.

M70%
by M####:

On marshmallow using Samsung s6 edge plus. Bad connect loop makes using this app really annoying

M70%
by M####:

It was updated yesterday then this morning and after i restarted my phone, it was updated again! What is going on? I just don't get it!

A70%
by A####:

Good app to have I have been using this app for years now and unfortunately I am considering uninstalling it. I do not agree with the recent update where it is a requirement to have my location setting on to be able to use my wireless Internet this setting needs to be optional

M70%
by M####:

pls i want the old version because it's useless in android 6.0

M70%
by M####:

Do you guys have any other apps!?

C70%
by C####:

A OKAY.

Q70%
by Q####:

Somewhat annoying to authorize access to wireless networks, but small price to pay for security

I70%
by I####:

After the latest update, I keep getting spammed with the same message: wifi privacy police needs (limited) location access in order to function correctly. I have my location mode set as device only and never had this problem before this update.

B70%
by B####:

EDIT: works on marshmallow! Yay :-) Old comment: Awesome app, but doesn't work on Android 5.1.1 - please fix.

M70%
by M####:

A simple yay or nay and Robert's your mother's brother. Unintrusive with no adverts, I like it.

F70%
by F####:

On Nexus 5X (Marshmellow) and Nexus 6 (CM nightlies) connections are not automatically established. Even after connecting to an Access Point manually the connection drops after a few seconds. When the app is not running everything works fine. EDIT: Unfortunately still not working

M70%
by M####:

Not since location required. Please release pre and post marshmallow versions.

K70%
by K####:

This had worked well on my Nexus 5 but stopped on an upgrade to Marshmellow. Happy to say the problem was fixed and it is working well again!

V70%
by V####:

The best now people can't use my WiFi thanks for a good app

M70%
by M####:

On nexus 6 and moto x pure no longer notifies when the phone needs to connect to wifi, in fact I thought my phones were having an issue connecting and was about to hard reset when I decided to turn this off instead, after not being able to connect for more than a week I was finally able to once it turned off.

M70%
by M####:

Works in Marshmallow now! Thanks!

M70%
by M####:

Ever since I installed this, my phone battery has drastically been draining. I've checked other possible apps and settings to see if it was something else causing the drain. All signs seem to indicate that it's this app. model number is sm n910v and running android 5.1.1. I'd like to see this fixed before I can give 5 stars.

G70%
by G####:

Uses geotags to and access point tracking to help prevent rogue access point exploits.

H70%
by H####:

Broken in marshmallow at first, developer responded quickly with a fix. Great app!

F70%
by F####:

Thank you for the quick fix! I'm no longer being kicked off my networks.

V70%
by V####:

The app seems to work fine in Marshmallow now. Thanks for fixing the issue quickly!

K70%
by K####:

Not working. Nexus 5

D70%
by D####:

very cool.....

T70%
by T####:

Unfortunately, after the last update and the need to have location services active all the time is killing my battery. When my phone gets updated to marshmallow I will try again.

P70%
by P####:

Simply works flawlessly


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