Your phone hosts a rich array of information about you and your activities. This includes a range of identifiers, location data and even your contacts list. Often time, apps collect such privacy-sensitive information and share it with third parties such as ad networks and analytics services without your consent for advertising and tracking purposes. Is an academic initiative led by independent academic researchers at ICSI.

Why run Differentiation Detector? Have you ever wondered if your ISP is slowing down certain traffic relative to others? Unfortunately, you mobile device and carriers currently give you little or no way to tell if this is the case. In fact, with the recently passed FCC rules for net neutrality, it is possibly illegal for mobile carriers to block, shape or modify nearly any kind of network traffic. With Differentiation Detector, we give you a way to test if this is happening to your traffic.

We are thankful to the following organizations for funding the research efforts of our lab.