The Data Track
The Data Track is a tool that visualizes data disclosures you have made online.
The different visualizations enable you to better understand what online
services know about you. The Data Track is a proof-of-concept and only supports
parsing your location history from Google's
Takeout service.
Usage
- Download or build the Data Track from source (see below).
- Start the Data Track by running the
datatrack
executable.
- A browser window should have opened, if not, browse to
http://localhost:8000.
- Either follow the provided instructions to download your own data from Google
or use the provided
takeout example.zip
file.
- Explore the data disclosures. Once you're done, close the Data Track and all
data created by the Data Track will be destroyed.
Download
See releases.
Privacy and the Data Track
Please note that the Data Track is a tool you run on your own device (Windows 10,
OS X and Linux x64 are supported) that uses your browser to show its user
interface (Firefox and Chrome tested). We send no data over the network, and
only retrieve tiles (images) loaded from OpenStreetMap
if you use the map view. We enforce this limitation with a Content Security Policy.
When the Data Track parses your data locally it stores part of the data in an
encrypted internal database (TODO: the database is a key-value store, and keys
are currently stored in the clear. We need order-preserving encryption or a
restructuring of our indexes.). The encryption key is randomly generated each
time you launch the Data Track and subsequently deleted together with the
database when you close the Data Track.
Development
The Data Track is developed by Computer Science at
Karlstad University. The Data Track is a result from the
EU FP7 research project A4Cloud, grant agreement no.
317550.
Build from source
Install Go. Go get this repo:
$ go get github.com/pylls/datatrack
Then build:
$ go build -o bin/datatrack main.go
Run the Data Track:
$ ./bin/datatrack
License
The Data Track is released under Apache 2.0. We use a number of
different third-party libraries, for details see
[Third-party licenses.md](Third-party licenses.md).