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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 millions of users worldwide and has even branched out with new apps that help you network (Bumble Bizz) or meet new friends (Bumble BFF). 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. How is Bumble at privacy? Well, not great TBH.
Co się może stać, jeśli coś pójdzie nie tak?
Bumble says they want to provide a safe dating space, especially for women. They even use artificial intelligence to moderate harmful text and automatically blur lewd photos. Good for them! Unfortunately, they have some work to do to provide a safe space for your personal data. Back in 2020, researchers found a security bug in Bumble that exposed the personal information of their nearly 100M 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. Then in 2021, a security researcher reported a vulnerability that could have let an attacker see users' precise location. 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. Oh and in 2023, Bumble was also the subject of a class action suit that claimed the app collects biometric data without getting proper consent. Not the greatest track record there Bumble.
Breaches and hacks aren't uncommon in the dating app space, but that doesn't make them any less worrisome to us. Especially because these dating apps can collect so much sensitive personal information -- like your sexual preference, birthday, and location. That's on top of standard account information like your email address, name, and phone number. Bumble can also collect your biometric information if you use Photo Verification. And you should know that just sharing any of that information counts as "explicitly consenting" to Bumble's processing of it. Interesting. Then there's all the photos and text you add to your profile, including the answers to some of Bumble's adorable prompts. Things like "you're really nerdy about" [our answer: data privacy!] or that "if you were president" you would [our answer: enact the world's strongest privacy law!]. Bumble's privacy policy does warn users that "you should assume that anything you post or submit on the App may be publicly-viewable and accessible, both by Users and non-users of the App." Okay then, good advice. Other things that might be seen: your DMs! Bumble says they review the content of messages to moderate them but also to "identify topics, sentiments, and trends across our Users." They say they take "steps to remove personally identifying information from such messages, prior to reviewing them." We'll just have to trust them on that.
What else? If you decide to login to Bumble using Facebook, you authorize them to access a lot of personal information from Facebook unless you opt out -- like your birthday, profile photos, and Page likes. 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. We're so glad using Facebook to login is no longer a requirement on Bumble since back in 2018. Good call, Bumble.
Bumble also says they can collect information about your activity in the app and may create "[i]inferences drawn from any of the personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics." Uhg, we really hate those inferences. They creep us out! And Bumble can use that pile o' data for reasons that won't help you meet new empowering people, like to show you targeted ads on the app. They can also share your personal information with marketing service providers to show you ads on third party websites. Hmm. Does that mean Bumble can sell your data? Well, they do have a pop-up window that says "We use services that help improve marketing campaigns. ... Under certain privacy laws, this may be considered selling or sharing your personal information with our marketing partners," and then gives you the option to opt out of the selling of your data. So, yeah, they're probably selling some of your data. Go opt out people! Oh, and Bumble says they can also use your photos and videos for research purposes.
So what could go wrong with your Bumbling? Well, we can look to Bumble's own track record for inspiration: a security vulnerability exposing your exact location, your weight, and your political leanings to the world without your knowledge or consent seems kinda awkward. It could also get kinda dangerous in the wrong hands.
Wskazówki, jak się chronić
- Check out Bumble's instructions on how to protect your personal information
- Visit the app's privacy preferences at the app and opt out from personalized advertising as well as all non-essential data collection.
- 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 give consent for sharing of personal data for marketing and advertising.
- Choose 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 (e.g. 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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Aparat
Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy
Aplikacja: Tak
Mikrofon
Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy
Aplikacja: Tak
Śledzi położenie
Urządzenie: Nie dotyczy
Aplikacja: Tak
Czego można użyć do rejestracji?
Nie
Telefon
Tak
Konto firmy trzeciej
Tak
Facebook sign-up is available.
Jakie dane zbiera ta firma?
Osobiste
Name, username, email address, mobile number, gender identity, date, time, and location of birth, sexual preference, photographs, location; and login information for social media accounts that you connect to your Bumble Account (this could include, for example, your Facebook and Instagram accounts); location; financial information; unique device identifier, device model, and operating system
Związane z ciałem
Photos and videos
Społecznościowe
Your device’s address book
Jak ta firma wykorzystuje te dane?
Jak możesz kontrolować swoje dane?
Jaka jest znana historia tej firmy w zakresie ochrony danych użytkowników?
In November 2023, Ashley Ott filed a class action lawsuit against Bumble Inc., alleging that the app collects customer user biometric data.
In August 2021, it was reported that a vulnerability in Bumble dating app reveals user's exact location.
In November, 2020, it was reported that a bug left the personal information -- including things like political leanings, astrological signs, education, height and weight, and distance away in miles -- of nearly 100 million Bumble users exposed and vulnerable.
Informacje o prywatności dziecka
Czy ten produkt może być używany bez połączenia z siecią?
Przyjazne dla użytkownika informacje o prywatności?
Odnośniki do informacji o prywatności
Czy ten produkt spełnia nasze minimalne standardy bezpieczeństwa?
Szyfrowanie
Silne hasło
Aktualizacje zabezpieczeń
Zajmuje się problemami z bezpieczeństwem
Bumble runs a bug bounty program.
Zasady ochrony prywatności
"We use a combination of automated systems and a team of moderators to monitor and review accounts (including photos and any other information uploaded onto user profiles) and messages for content that indicates breaches of our Terms and Conditions of Use. If an account or message meets certain criteria that demonstrate that the Terms and Conditions of Use are likely to have been breached, the relevant account will be subject to a warning and the user’s access restricted and/or blocked. Affected Users can contact Bumble to contest the decision."
"Bumble Inc. has launched Deception Detector™, harnessing artificial intelligence (A.I.) to weed out fake, spam, or scam profiles on our app. In our tests so far, our Deception Detector™ machine learning model has demonstrated 99.5% precision in identifying these catfish and other fakers. Profiles deemed likely to be a scam by Deception Detector™ will have to go through a verification process to ensure they’re authentic, or could be removed from Badoo altogether."
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Bumble class action alleges app collects, customer user biometric dataTop Class Actions
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