Hallow (app.hallow.android): Privacy & Security Findings

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On behalf of our research partners, we investigate publicly distributed Android and iOS apps: we decompile them, follow their code and data flows, and trace every connection to the servers it reaches. Hundreds of agents work through each app and join the technical evidence into one picture, which our specialists then review and verify.

387+
Android/iOS apps audited
Every app is decompiled at source-code level, not just scanned from outside.
1.04M+
Smali classes read
The full shipped code we have actually read, not an estimate.
262+
Critical findings recorded
Confirmed findings copied to regulators, not theoretical risks.
970+
Weak points found
Third-party tracking we have provably found inside the binary.
567+
Endpoints investigated
Real servers and countries where data actually flows.
132+
SDK instances mapped
Reusable libraries correlated across the entire corpus.
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Hallow
Private
2026-06-22
89d ago
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Critical
Hallow, a Catholic prayer and meditation app, tracks your religious behaviour and routes it through Huawei's Chinese advertising SDK to an identifier that can fall under China's national-security law, without disclosing that connection anywhere. It also requests microphone and contacts access with no clear reason a prayer app would need either.
app.hallow.android. Hallow Inc. (Chicago), Catholic prayer/meditation app = Art. 9 religious data by definition. C1: Firebase key AIzaSyAmBvgVgEmXqn6ntqhYsAdO5UWDmKKHpMo hardcoded. C2: Huawei HMS Ads SDK (OAID) routes religious-behavior profiling to China NSL Art. 7, undisclosed (Art. 44, no adequacy). H3: RECORD_AUDIO + READ_CONTACTS no necessity. No cert pinning. R1 2026-06-22.
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GDPR Art. 32GDPR Art. 9(1)PRC National Intelligence Law Art. 7+2
Yes
Closed
Disclosure
89d 00h 00m 00s
Published
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