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Qutie
It seems most dating apps targeted at members of the LGBTQ+ community often target the individual groups within the community rather than the community as a whole. Qutie wants to target the entire, diverse community. That makes it unique. Launched in 2016, Qutie bills itself as a dating app and social networking site for the full spectrum of the LGBTQ community. It doesn't seem to have a a huge user base yet, which is perhaps an interesting commentary on how the LGBTQ community feels about broad dating apps as opposed to niche ones. With a cute app interface, Qutie provides users a couple of questionnaires to help them find matches.
What could happen if something goes wrong?
While Qutie is small and cute, there were a few things that creeped us out about it. The main one being how they collect and use your Facebook data if you chose to sign in using your Facebook login. Their privacy policy says if you sign in using Facebook, "you authorise us to access certain Facebook account information, such as your public Facebook profile, your email address, interests, likes, sexual orientation, gender, birthday, education history, relationship interests, current city, photos, personal description, friend list, and information about and photos of your Facebook friends who might be common Facebook friends with other Qutie users." Yikes! That's a lot of information their getting from Facebook. And when you connect a social media account like Facebook to that dating app, both Facebook and the dating app now potentially collect more information together. That's why we recommend users don't link your dating app to Facebook. On top of that, Qutie does appear to allow users to delete their data upon request. We also found we were able to login to the app with the weak password 123456. All in all, we applaud Qutie for trying to be a place for everyone in the LGBTQ+ community. We just wish they'd make more of an effort to protect the personal information of those users because potentially getting outed before you are ready by your dating app would be no fun at all.
Can it snoop on me?
Camera
Device: N/A
App: Yes
Microphone
Device: N/A
App: No
Tracks location
Device: N/A
App: Yes
What can be used to sign up?
Yes
Phone
No
Third-party account
Yes
What data does the company collect?
Personal
User name (required), date of birth (required), location (required), gender (required), marital status (required), sexual orientation (required), sexual preference (required), photos (optional), personal descriptions (optional), content of chats (required). Does not appear collect data on ethnicity.
Body related
None
Social
If signed-in with Facebook, Qutie collects users’ public Facebook profile (depending on users’ privacy settings in Facebook): email address, interests, likes, sexual orientation, gender, birthday, education history, relationship interests, current city, photos, personal description, friend list, and information about and photos of users’ Facebook friends who might be common Facebook friends with other Qutie users.
How does the company use this data?
How can you control your data?
What is the company’s known track record of protecting users’ data?
No known incidents in the last two years
Can this product be used offline?
User-friendly privacy information?
One of the more user friendly Privacy Policies out there.
Links to privacy information
Does this product meet our Minimum Security Standards?
Encryption
We were unable to determine if they use encryption to protect users' personal information, chats, photos, and more.
Strong password
We were able to login with the weak password 123456.
Security updates
Manages vulnerabilities
We were unable to tell if they have a bug bounty program.
Privacy policy
Does the product use AI?
Is this AI untrustworthy?
What kind of decisions does the AI make about you or for you?
Is the company transparent about how the AI works?
Does the user have control over the AI features?
Comments
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