Appothority is the industry’s first all-in-one App Risk Management service. Some of the specific issues that Appothority found with Tinder include privacy and geo location. Every Tinder user must connect their Tinder account with their Facebook. This gives the app access to all of your personal information like birthdates, location, and photos. The GPS is also very dangerous. Tinder users can be tracked by location all of the time, this is obviously a huge safety concern.
“People who use mobile dating or match-finding apps may realize that their profile and limited private information is exposed, or sent, to other potential matches by the application. What they may not realize is the amount of private information that is sent. We examined some of the most popular of these types of apps, finding far more private information being sent than what companies claim in their privacy policies.
For the match-finding apps that match the users geographically, we found exact distances being sent which can be used by the user viewing the profile to track down the *exact* geo-location of practically any user who has a public profile. We also found that Facebook ID’s can be uncovered, and the exact birth date of the app user.”
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