You can find a written version of this video on our website: https://privacyinternational.org/explainer/4717/how-use-data-interception-environment And detailed documentation on our GitHub: https://github.com/privacyint/ (where you can also download the DIE)

The Data Interception Environment (DIE) is a tool that you can use to analyse how your data is being used by app developers and third parties. It allows you to see how apps are sending your data from your device back to the company or to third parties.

We’ve used to it research everything from low cost phones, to menstruation apps, and now we’re making it available so that you can do your own research on how your devices use your data.

Further Info

PI has made this tool available to assist individuals, researchers and organisations in developing a technical understanding of how their own data is being captured, processed and transferred by applications to 3rd parties. It should only be used to analyse data on a device, virtual copy of a device, or an app, which the user owns or is legally authorised to use.

The Data Interception Environment software is free to use in accordance with terms of the GNU General Public License. However, Privacy International’s brand, logo and name are copyrighted and protected from unauthorised use. PI cannot endorse any modifications that users or any other third parties make to PI’s Data Interception Environment and attribute to PI.

PI is a charity registered in England and Wales. We have developed our Data Interception Environment tool in accordance with the laws, regulations and standards that apply to us in England and Wales. Any individual, researcher or organisation who makes use of of PI’s Data Interception Environemnt is responsible for ensuring that they are acting lawfully and in accordance with the laws, regulations and standards which apply to them in the jurisdiction they are operating in or to which they are subject.