
Voice calls, video calls, group chats, stickers, social channels, self-destructing chats, end-to-end encryption, lots of spam, and targeted ads. Viber provides all the greatest hits of the messaging app world. It’s like a mix of WhatsApp and Telegram with a dash of Snapchat thrown in for good measure. And it’s huge - with over a billion users around the world. During the pandemic, Viber expanded it’s group video chat features to allow for more users, which resulted in cool things like teachers in Hungary using it to help stay in touch with their students. Good vibes indeed.
O que pode acontecer se algo der errado?
Viber seems to do a fairly good job at protecting their users' privacy and security. Especially when compared to other similar messaging apps like Telegram and Whatsapp. It's not perfect, but we do like they've been using end-to-end encryption by default since 2016 (except for group calls, those are only encrypted in transit). Some other good thing they do: Once a message is delivered, it is deleted from their servers so your messages aren’t sitting around where others could potentially access them and you can choose to hide yourself from any of the contacts in your contact list (handy when it comes to that ex of yours!). Some things they do we don’t love: When you join a group, your phone number will be visible to all group members, which could be a lot of people, so be careful. Also, Viber has had problems with bad people sending lots of spam and viruses. As always, it’s good to be careful reading or downloading things from people you don’t know. And it's been reported about 20% of Viber’s revenue comes from ads. They collect users’ IP-address location, gender, and age to target these ads, although users can opt out of gender and age targeting if they take the time to change their settings. Their ad partners may also combine the data collected about you when using Viber with their outside records to do even more targeting. So lock those settings down as much as you can! One thing we really loved about Viber is in 2020 they joined the #StopHateForProfit campaign (Mozilla did too!) and cut all business ties with Facebook. Gotta love a company that takes a stand against hate, misinformation, and unethical privacy practices!
Pode me bisbilhotar?
Câmera
Dispositivo: Não aplicável
Aplicativo: Sim
Microfone
Dispositivo: Não aplicável
Aplicativo: Sim
Rastreia localização
Dispositivo: Não aplicável
Aplicativo: Sim
O que pode ser usado para se inscrever?
Não
Celular
Sim
Conta de terceiros
Não
A third party can be used to sign up
Que dados a empresa coleta?
Pessoal
Name, email, birth date, age, phone number and, when necessary, billing information. Location (WPS location data) - if allowed in settings.
Relacionado ao corpo
Social
A copy of the phone numbers and names of all your contacts. If you sign up through third parties (like VK or Facebook) - your public profile, friend list, accounts you follow or who follow you, your email address, birthday, work history, education history, interests, current city, and video viewing
Como a empresa usa esses dados?
Como você pode controlar seus dados?
Qual é o histórico conhecido da empresa na proteção de dados dos usuários?
No known record of date breaches or leaks
Este produto pode ser usado offline?
Informações de privacidade fáceis de entender?
Viber's privacy policy is rather complicated and overwhelmingly long. Some Q&A would make it simpler to comprehend.
Links para informações de privacidade
Este produto atende aos nossos padrões mínimos de segurança?
Criptografia
Viber delivers end-to-end encryption by default for 1-to-1, group chats, and 1-to-1 calls. Group calls are only encrypted in transit.
Senha forte
Viber does not require a password to log in, users are required upon registration to authenticate their phone number. Users have the possibility to add a security code to their desktop app. Users can also enable password-protected secret chats in Viber, with a self-destruction timer.
Atualizações de segurança
In case of any security vulnerabilities an update to the Viber app will be made promptly and pushed as part of the regular application upgrade process.
Gerencia vulnerabilidades
Viber does manage security vulnerabilities. They also have cooperations with external parties that help find such vulnerabilities and verify that our patches fix the issues.
Política de privacidade
Viber uses several AI and machine learning systems in their backend systems for things like spam detection, community moderation, language translation and others. Viber claims that sharing the algorithm for spam detection, community moderation, language translation etc. publicly will actually defeat their purpose (for example spammers will know how to bypass their systems and attack users).
Esta inteligência artificial não é confiável?
Que tipo de decisões a inteligência artificial faz sobre você ou por você?
A empresa é transparente sobre como funciona a inteligência artificial?
O usuário tem controle sobre os recursos da inteligência artificial?
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Viber privacy settings
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