Effective Date: April 13, 2026
DroidTether is built with a Privacy-First philosophy. As a system-level networking utility, we understand that we are in a position of high trust. This policy outlines our commitment to your data sovereignty and security.
DroidTether operates as a transparent userspace bridge between your Android phone's USB interface (RNDIS) and your Mac's virtual tunnel (utun).
- No Deep Packet Inspection (DPI): We do not read, inspect, store, or modify the contents of the individual data packets flowing through the relay.
- Encapsulation Only: Our core logic is restricted to RNDIS/Ethernet encapsulation and decapsulation required for packet transport.
- No "Call Home": The DroidTether daemon contains no code to contact any remote server for telemetry, crash reporting, or user analytics.
- No Identity Tracking: We do not collect your name, email, IP address, device serial numbers, or any other personally identifiable information (PII).
- Offline by Default: DroidTether does not require an internet connection to function (other than the connection provided by your phone).
For debugging and performance monitoring, DroidTether writes limited operational logs to your local filesystem at:
/var/log/droidtether.log
These logs contain:
- USB connection/disconnection events.
- DHCP lease assignments (Local IPs only).
- Traffic volume statistics (Total bytes sent/received).
These logs never leave your machine. You are free to inspect or delete them at any time.
DroidTether is 100% open-source. Anyone can audit our packet-handling logic in internal/daemon/relay.go to verify that we are adhering to this policy.
If you have security or privacy concerns, please open an issue on our GitHub repository or contact the author via LinkedIn.