I captured 72 hours of idle Android packets behind pfSense

Workbench Empirical Benchmark 2026 DeGoogle Mobile Telemetry Study: 72-Hour Packet Capture Dataset How much data does a phone secretly send to Google when you are not using it? Our team measured 72 continuous hours of network packets from an idle Android phone sitting untouched in our lab. Here is our raw dataset, our test setup, and what it means for your privacy.

Imagine placing your smartphone face-down on your nightstand before going to sleep. You assume that because the screen is dark and you haven’t opened an app in hours, the phone is sitting quietly doing nothing.