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Bumble
Review date: 07.02.2021
Every dating app has a thing. Bumble's thing is only women can make the first move in the app to contact a man (for users looking for someone of the same gender, anyone can make the first move). Bumble says their goal is to shake up the gender norms and empower women to make the first move. Which can be a breath of fresh air in the straight dating app world where women are constantly bombarded with "Hey" as an opening line (come on guys, do better!). Founded by a former Tinder employee and launched in 2014, Bumble now has over 100 million users worldwide. This dating app lets users sign up with Facebook or their phone number (they added the phone number options back in 2018 following Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal). All profile information on Bumble is public, so if you sign up with Facebook be aware it could pull your personal info from there and make it open to all users.
Was könnte passieren, wenn etwas schiefgeht?
Bumble says they want to provide a safe dating space, especially for women. They even use artificial intelligence to try and moderate lewd images, body shaming, transphobic, homophobic, and racist comments shared on the site. Good for them! Unfortunately, they have some work to do to protect the privacy and security of all the users on their app. In November 2020, researchers found a security bug in Bumble that exposed the personal information of their nearly 100 millions users. All that really personal info, like political leanings, weight, the type of person a user was looking for, and even location were open to any attacker with a little technical know how. We'll say it again, no matter what a company's privacy policy says, any personal information you share with them online is potentially vulnerable and could be used by bad people for bad purposes. We are glad to see that in 2018, Bumble did stop requiring users to sign in through Facebook. Now users also have the option to sign in with their phone number. Which is good because according to Bumble's privacy policy, if you log into the app using your Facebook account you authorize them to access pretty much everything on Facebook -- friends list, current location, photos, friends you have in common with other people on Bumble, the list goes on. So please remember, when you connect a social media account like Facebook to Bumble, both Facebook and Bumble now potentially collect more information together. That's why we recommend users don't link your dating app to Facebook, use your phone number instead. Because really, you don't need to share all your personal info with Facebook, and then Bumble, and then Bumble may share more with Facebook and then it all gets exposed and soon the world knows where you live, who you think is hot, and how much money you make. That might be a recipe for a good date...it's also potentially a recipe for disaster.
Datenschutz
Spioniert es mich aus?
Camera
Gerät: Nicht verfügbar
App: Ja
Microphone
Gerät: Nicht verfügbar
App: Ja
Tracks Location
Gerät: Nicht verfügbar
App: Ja
Was wird für die Registrierung abgefragt?
E-Mail-Adresse
Nein
Phone
Ja
Third party account
Ja
What data does it collect?
Personal
"First name (required), photo (min one), date of birth (required), gender (required), type of connection (required: date, bff, bizz), profile prompt (optional), description (optional), occupation (optional), education (optional), covid dating (optional), city (optional), hometown (optional), exercise (optional), star sign (optional), drinking (optional), smoking (optional), pets (optional), looking for (optional), kids (optional), religion (optional), politics (optional), content of messages (required). Does not collect data on ethnicity.
Biometric
Height (optional)
Social
Yes, Bumble collects social media data: login information and friend lists for social media accounts that are connected to a user's Bumble Account
Wie werden die Daten genutzt?
Wie können Sie über Ihre Daten bestimmen?
What is the company’s known track record for protecting users’ data?
Bumble's systems had serious security flaws that left personal information of users exposed in Novemeber 2020.
Kann dieses Produkt offline genutzt werden?
User friendly privacy information?
The privacy policy language is relatively user-friendly. However, their privacy policy isn't totally clear on how they are sharing your data.
Links to privacy information
Security
Does this product meet our Minimum Security Standards?
Verschlüsselung
We couldn't find anywhere that shows Bumble explicitly uses encryption to protect all users' personal and communications. They did not respond to our requests for more information so we are unable to tell if they use encryption or not.
Strong password
Password isn't requires as login happens either via phone or third-party
Sicherheitsupdates
Sicherheitslücken – und jetzt?
Bounty Program. https://bumble.com/contact-us
Privacy policy
Künstliche Intelligenz
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Bumble uses AI for moderation purposes, including detecting inappropriate images as well as body shaming language, including fat-phobic, ableist, racist, colorist, homophobic or transphobic remarks. Bumble uses automated decisions and moderators to block accounts as part of its moderation procedures.