Sennheiser Momentum True Wireless 2
Review date: 11/02/2020
Bespoke 7 mm dynamic drivers! No idea what those are, but they sound fancy and come in these wireless earbuds from Sennheiser. These little buds also feature high quality sound, active and passive noise cancelling, what they call transparent hearing functionality (so you can hear the noise around you), and a Bluetooth connected app that lets you control it all on your phone. Unfortunately they also had a pretty big security oops back in 2018. Here's hoping Sennheiser learned their lesson from that.
What could happen if something goes wrong
We love that Sennheiser doesn't collect any personal data on its users. What a novel idea! They did have a security problem in 2018 when Sennheiser’s flawed headphone software opened PCs and Macs to website spoofing, which isn't great. And, as always, if you use Google Assistant or Alexa with these headphones, that voice data is sent back to Google or Amazon. All in all though, we don't think Sennheiser's headphones should scare you much at all.
Privacy
Can it snoop on me?
Camera
Device: No
App: No
Microphone
Device: Yes
App: No
Tracks Location
Device: No
App: Yes
What is required to sign up?
No
Phone
No
Third party account
No
What data does it collect?
Personal
No personal information is collected by Sennheiser.
Biometric
Social
How does it use this data?
How can you control your data?
What is the company’s known track record for protecting users’ data?
Sennheiser’s flawed headphone software opened PCs and Macs to HTTPS site spoofing in November, 2018.
Can this product be used offline?
User friendly privacy information?
Links to privacy information
Security
Does this product meet our Minimum Security Standards?
Encryption
Uses encryption for the Bluetooth.
Strong password
Security updates
Manages vulnerabilities
Sennheiser has a bug bounty program, which means that anyone who finds a security issue and discloses it responsibly may get paid.
Privacy policy
The company has a privacy policy for its webpages, and there is another privacy policy for the app. Location access is required to connect the app to the headphones.
