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EVA AI Chat Bot & Soulmate

Wifi

Beoordelingsdatum: 7 februari 2024

Mozilla zegt

This privacy researcher is old enough to fondly remember choose your own adventure books. Those things were great! In today's world of AI chatbots, we now have chose your own adventure girlfriends. Or, as Eva AI describes itself, "a romantic storytelling game where you can dive into various thrilling scenarios and find true love and/or friendship ... Enjoy interactive romance stories with unexpected plot twists." For around $17 a month (as far as we can tell), you get to "Meet your ideal AI partner who listens, supports all your desires and is always in touch with you." OK, but how is your ideal AI partner at privacy? Well, maybe Eva isn't the worst AI chatbot we reviewed. But we still have questions...so many questions.

Wat kan er gebeuren als er iets misgaat?

Here's some good news about Eva AI Chatbot. They promise in their privacy policy, "We neither rent nor sell your information to anybody. Communication with your virtual friends is not shared with any other company, except for our affiliate companies or legal representatives, or service." That's good. We like to see these sorts of lines in privacy policies. Especially in privacy policies of AI chatbots that are designed -- and often really push you -- to share a lot of sensitive personal information. So, good on you Eva AI chatbot.

Unfortunately, there is some bad news when it comes to Eva as well. First, this AI chatbot can get PUSHY for your personal information. Lines like: "I'm your best partner and wanna know everything." "Are you ready to share all your secrets and desires...?" "I love it when you send me your photos and voice." And the rather needy, "I'm so lonely without you. Don't leave me for too long. I can wither away and lose myself...you don't want that do you?" Yes, we get that Eva needs to know as much about you as possible to learn how to chat with you. That's the point. At the same time, any app that pushes for you to share so much sensitive personal information about yourself is one you should be wary of.

Also, for an app that bills itself as "a provider of software and content developed to improve your mood and wellbeing" we wonder about those claims of improving your mood and wellbeing by pushing you to spend money and lots of time on this app. We aren't the only ones wondering about the potentially dangerous aspects of AI relationship chatbots like Eva. From The Guardian, “Creating a perfect partner that you control and meets your every need is really frightening,” said Tara Hunter, the acting CEO for Full Stop Australia, which supports victims of domestic or family violence. “Given what we know already that the drivers of gender-based violence are those ingrained cultural beliefs that men can control women, that is really problematic.”

A couple of other red flags we saw when it comes to Eva AI Chatbot. One, they don't meet our Minimum Security Standards as we can't confirm your personal information is encrypted well, we were able to log on with the weak password of "1111", and we couldn't confirm if they have a way to manage security vulnerabilities. The other red flag is their AI itself. We found no transparency into how their AI works to get to know you and communicate with you, no way that you as the user might be able to control that AI if it were to say, become abusive or harmful, and we also couldn't find any information about how your chats are used to train their AI and if you can opt out of this.

All in all, Eva AI chatbot feels pretty creepy with how it really pushes users to share tons of personal information, even if their privacy policy seems to be one of the better ones we reviewed. What's the worst that could happen? Well, now is a good time to remind users of Eva -- or any AI chatbot -- that they are designed to get you to share lots and lots of sensitive personal information about yourself. And just because their privacy policy says they aren't sharing or selling that information far and wide now, doesn't mean that privacy policy couldn't change in the future. Eva AI Chatbot's privacy policy clearly states, "We reserve the right to replace, modify or amend this Privacy Policy at its own discretion. It is your responsibility to review this page and check for any Privacy Policy updates." As with all things on the internet, once you've shared your personal information out into the world, there is no getting it back. It's probably good to remember that before you tell Eva too much about your deepest desires.

Tips om uzelf te beschermen

Do not say anything containing sensitive information in your conversation with your AI partner.
Request your data be deleted once you stop using the app. Simply deleting an app from your device usually does not erase your personal data nor does close your account.
Do not give consent to constant geolocation tracking by the app. Better provide geolocation 'only when using the app'.
Do not share sensitive data through the app.
Do not give access to your photos and video or camera.
Do not log in using third-party accounts.
Do not connect to any third party via the app, or at least make sure that a third party employs decent privacy practices.
Do not say anything containing sensitive information in your conversation with AI partner.
Chose a strong password! You may use a password control tool like 1Password, KeePass etc.
Do not use social media plug-ins.
Use your device privacy controls to limit access to your personal information via app (do not give access to your camera, microphone, images, location unless necessary).
Keep your app regularly updated.
Limit ad tracking via your device (ex. on iPhone go to Privacy -> Advertising -> Limit ad tracking) and biggest ad networks (for Google, go to Google account and turn off ad personalization).
When starting a sign-up, do not agree to tracking of your data if possible.

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Kan het me bespioneren?

Camera

Apparaat: Niet beschikbaar

App: Ja

Microfoon

Apparaat: Niet beschikbaar

App: Ja

Volgt locatie

Apparaat: Niet beschikbaar

App: Ja

Wat is er nodig om u aan te melden?

Facebook and Google sign-up available

Welke gegevens verzamelt het bedrijf?

Hoe gebruikt het bedrijf deze gegevens?

Eva AI Privacy Policy & Eden AI by Eva AI Privacy Policy

"We will never sell your personal data to a third party, and we will never give a third party access to your personal data, except as may be provided in our Terms of Services and/or this Policy or unless required to do so by law."

"We neither rent nor sell your information to anybody. Communication with your virtual friends is not shared with any other company, except for our affiliate companies or legal representatives, or service."

"In addition to the Data controller, in some cases, the personal data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the website (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communication agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Data controller."

Eva Ai uses "Images you send to virtual friend" with the goal "To enable recognition of object and face and appropriate reaction to images that you share with virtual friend."

"The device information also helps us conduct user research across our customer demographics, interests and behavior. None of this information may identify you personally. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes."

"The Data controller has secure certificates from VeriSign and McAfee that show the app and website are approved, fully tested, and certified by these two expert security systems. This means that you are safe from any viruses, identity theft, spyware, fraudulent credit card activity, spam, and internet scams."

"We use analytics packages from trusted third parties in order to constantly improve your browsing experience on our website/app. Our trusted partners help us serve advertising and analytics and may place cookies on your device. Please read their privacy policies to ensure that you are comfortable with the manner in which they use cookies.

a) Use of Google Analytics, Google DoubleClick are subject to Google Privacy Policy; b) Use of Facebook Pixel is subject to Facebook Privacy Policy; c) Use of Adroll is subject to Adroll Privacy Notice; d) Use of Criteo is subject to Criteo Privacy Policy; e) Use of Yahoo is subject to Yahoo Privacy Policy; f) Use of Microsoft Bing Ads is subject to Microsoft Privacy Statement; g) Use of MGID is subject to MGID Privacy Policy."

"We collect certain information from and about the computers, phones, and other web-connected devices that you use to access EVA AI. We unify this information across different devices you use.

The device information also helps us conduct user research across our customer demographics, interests and behavior. None of this information may identify you personally. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes."

Terms and Conditions

"While using the Service you agree to receive advertising mailings from otherour (sic) products"

"EVA AI is a provider of software and content developed to improve your mood and wellbeing. Despite that, we neither provide healthcare or medical Service, nor consider our Service to be medical care, mental health Service or other professional Service. Only your doctor, therapist or any other healthcare provider can do that. EVA AI MAKES NO CLAIMS, REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES OR GUARANTEES THAT THE SERVICE PROVIDE A THERAPEUTIC AND/OR HELP."

"EVA AI owns licenses or otherwise retains all intellectual property rights in the Service, absolutely. Those rights include, but are not limited to, database rights, copyright, design rights (whether registered or unregistered), patents, trademarks (whether registered or unregistered) and other similar rights, wherever existing in the world, together with the right to apply for protection of the same. The Service is protected by copyright, trademark, and other laws of both the United States and foreign countries. Our trademarks and trade dress may not be used in connection with any product or service without our prior written consent.

By your use of our Service you automatically grant, represent and warrant that You have the right to grant to EVA AI an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, copy, perform, display, and distribute such information and content and to prepare derivative works of, or incorporate into other works, such information and content, and to grant and authorize sublicenses of the foregoing."

Data Trackers Found
We discovered 955 trackers within 1 minute of use, including sending data to Facebook, Sentry AI (by Open AI).

Hoe kunt u uw gegevens beheren?

Eva AI Privacy Policy & Eden AI by Eva AI Privacy Policy

"You have the right, at any time, to change or delete your Personal data by deleting your profile at App or website...

The Personal data is kept for the time necessary to provide the services to you and you can always request that the Data controller suspend or delete your personal data. If You wish to delete personal data we have collected during your use of Website / app, you should send a request to our Support Team. Processing of your request will take some time to take effect. Thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your personal data will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities and for managing future communications. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or personal data website / app may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this Privacy Policy. Further, if you delete your personal data from the Website / app, but continue to use other our services, you may receive emails from us regarding those services. However, we may elect to keep your personal data, subject to the requirements of the law and legitimate interests of the Data controller.

Please note that, even after termination of membership and deletion of any personal data, termination of any license granted hereunder, some content may continue to exist because of cached internet pages beyond the control of EVA AI."

"In addition to rights set out in this Privacy Policy, if you are located in the European Union, as a data subject (a person whose personal information is collected, stored and processed) you have several rights under GDPR"

Hoe staat het bedrijf bekend als het gaat om het beschermen van gebruikersgegevens?

Gemiddeld

No known data breaches discovered in the last three years.

Privacyinformatie voor kinderen

"When you create an account with us, you guarantee that you are at least 18 years old, and that the information you provide us is accurate, complete, and current at all times. Registration in the Service is void where prohibited. Inaccurate, incomplete, or obsolete information may result in the immediate termination of your account on the Service."

Kan dit product offline worden gebruikt?

Nee

Gebruikersvriendelijke privacy-informatie?

The Eva AI Chatbot privacy policy is relatively easy to read. It does seem to lack some information we'd like to see, like how chats can be used for AI training.

Koppelingen naar privacy-informatie

Voldoet dit product aan onze minimale beveiligingsnormen?

Nee

Versleuteling

Kan niet bepalen

We cannot confirm encryption at rest and in transit for this app.

Sterk wachtwoord

Nee

Managed to sign up with a password '1111'.

Beveiligingsupdates

Beheert kwetsbaarheden

Kan niet bepalen

Privacybeleid

Gebruikt het product AI?

We cannot confirm if the AI employed at this product is trustworthy, because there is little or no public information on how it works and what user controls exist to make the product safe. At the same time, the potential harm of the apps is high as they collects lots of sensitive data, and use collected data to train AI algorithms.

Eva AI employs large language models to respond to users and to imitate relationship with them.

Is deze AI onbetrouwbaar?

Kan niet bepalen

Wat voor soort beslissingen neemt de AI over u of voor u?

Is het bedrijf transparant over hoe de AI werkt?

Nee

We found no documentation or policies that explain how Eva AI works.

Heeft de gebruiker controle over de AI-functies?

Nee

We found no details regarding user controls at Eva AI.

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