Parasol
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Parasol (alpha) is a community-based privacy advisor and permission manager, which creatively designed for Android 6.0.
Parasol can help users protect their privacy by providing the following information:
- The purpose of each permission of each app.
- Whether the permission is abused or misused.
- Whether users can safely turn off the permission without compromising app's major features.
- To integrate with permission management UI under Android 6.0, so users can control permissions directly via Parasol.
The core concept of Parasol is community.
There are a variety of anti-virus apps working for Android at present. Even Google has used bouncer to detect permission abuses. Unfortunately, they are still on the way to find the best solution.
We believe that the real knowledge and deep insight come from users. By leveraging expert users' knowledge and judgments, we can create a huge database, including permission recommendations and privacy suggestions for all Android apps. This database will benefit all the Android users.
How powerful is this database so far?
It is capable of describing accurate permissions for more than 10,000 popular apps, while providing permission and privacy recommendations for more than 680,000 popular apps.
Where is the data from?
Before we build Parasol, we already have 4+ years experiences in permission management and privacy protection.
We provide permission management solutions for several major Chinese smartphone brands such as Xiaomi, Meizu, One Plus, etc.
Based on our studies on permission management and analysis of hundreds of millions feedback from users, we built the unique database for Parasol.
Will we open the database?
Yes, we will open it in the future.
Current status
Parasol currently supports Android 5.0 and above. The permission configuration feature supports Android MNC preview and above.
Future plan
The parasol is still in an early alpha stage. We will make our release plan based on users’ suggestions.
- To provide a Pro version for geeks and tech gurus with advanced permission and privacy analysis features, aims to help them contribute to Parasol community.
- [highlight]Android 4.2 or higher is required[/highlight]
- For Android 4.2: display well, can view permission, but no permission setting
- For Android 4.3 till 5.1: can configure permissions after ROOT
- For Samsung Note 3 in Android 5.0: all features run well (can configure permissions without ROOT)
- For Android M: all features run well (view and setting)
alpha 1.0.191 09/22/2015
- For Android 4.3 till 5.1: can configure permissions after ROOT
- For Samsung Note 3 in Android 5.0: all features run well (can configure permissions without ROOT)
- Released; For Android 5.0 and higher OS
Download lastest version please see below attached files
Feedback
parasol.jing@gmail.com
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More details, go to Parasol website
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