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Plenty of Fish

Wifi

Beoordelingsdatum: 15 maart 2021

Mozilla zegt

Launched in 2003, Plenty of Fish is one of the OG dating services with over 90 million users around the world, mostly in North America, the UK, Europe, and Australia. It bills itself as "dating for grown ups" where users can "make a real connection." It does this by combining dating site profile searches and location-based matches with questionnaire matchmaking services . Basically, Plenty of Fish combines all the dating service services into one dating app. Free users can sign up, send messages, get matches, and more. Premium user features include viewing extended user profiles, the ability to stand out in searches, and an ad-free app experience. Plenty of Fish did leak a bunch of users' personal data back in 2019, which isn't a great thing for a dating app to be doing.

Wat kan er gebeuren als er iets misgaat?

In 2019, a security vulnerability was discovered by a security researcher that potentially exposed information users had set to privacy such as zip code and first name. The security researcher did say Plenty of Fish was responsive at getting this problem fixed, which is good to hear. This dating app also asks users to provide a whole lot of personal information when you sign up -- everything from our ethnicity and whether you smoke to if you own a vehicle and if your parents were married (seriously, they ask for that!). That's a whole lot of personal information you're giving a company that has a history of security vulnerabilities. Finally, Match Group owns Plenty of Fish and at least 45 other dating sites like Hinge, Tinder, and OKCupid. When you sign up with one of these dating sites, the Match Group privacy policy states they may share your personal information with any of the other Match Groups sites for what they say are non-commercial limited and critical purposes. That's a lot of personal data you might have thought only going to once place getting shared across multiple dating sites.

mobile

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?

Welke gegevens verzamelt het bedrijf?

Persoonlijke

Country, city, post code/zip code, gender, date of birth, ethnicity, username, first name, gender preference, relationship, intent, smokers, kids, body type, occupation, education, ambition, income, religion, second language, marital status, longest relationship, personality type, alcohol consumption, smoker, drug use, vehicle ownership, have kids, want kids, pets, parents' marital status, siblings count, birth order, descriptions, interests, photo (minimum one), are all potentially collected.

Hoe gebruikt het bedrijf deze gegevens?

Plenty of Fish definitely shares user data with around 45 other Match Group companies, such as Tinder, OK Cupid, and Plenty of Fish among others. The company also shares data with third parties for purposes such as advertising and analytics.

Hoe kunt u uw gegevens beheren?

Users can request a copy of their personal information be deleted.

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

Verbetering nodig

In December 2019, a serious potential data breach exposed by a security research that could identify users' private info (first names and zip codes) that could put users at risk not only online but also offline. However, Plenty of Fish pushed out a security update fixing the exposed vulnerabilities.

Kan dit product offline worden gebruikt?

Nee

Gebruikersvriendelijke privacy-informatie?

Nee

Pretty technical even though they claim to make it accessible.

Koppelingen naar privacy-informatie

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Versleuteling

Sterk wachtwoord

Nee

We were able to login with the weak password 123456. However, Plenty of Fish does require two-factor authentication which helps mitigate the dangers of only requiring a weak password.

Beveiligingsupdates

Beheert kwetsbaarheden

Plenty of Fish has a bug bounty program.

Privacybeleid

Gebruikt het product AI?

Plenty of Fish uses automated decision-making and profiling for recommendations, moderation and ads. https://help.pof.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043097291-Profiles-and-Automated-Decision-Making.