Dating apps remain data-hungry – but two providers are surprisingly breaking away from the industry. Our new analysis shows that while many apps continue to track users extensively, two providers are approaching a data protection-friendly standard for the first time. This is a signal to the industry – and a warning to users, who are still largely kept in the dark. Which apps really create transparent users and where privacy is actually worthwhile: find out now in the new test.
Back in 2023, we applied our then still relatively new privacy analysis of mobile applications to the field of dating apps—an area that is extremely popular with users—and, unsurprisingly, identified massive data-collection potential in virtually all of the apps examined.
In the meantime, the test format has evolved into an independent certification test and has been adjusted and expanded in several areas. And since dating apps remain incredibly successful—especially at this time of year—and represent a more than worthy challenge for our test format and every aspect of it, we would like to take the opportunity to take a closer look at this category once again.
What has changed? And could any of these apps actually have a chance of earning our approved privacy seal? Let’s find out.
Further information on the methodology behind our privacy analysis and the corresponding certification is available on our website.
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Back in 2023, we applied our then still relatively new privacy analysis of mobile applications to the field of dating apps—an area that is extremely popular with users—and, unsurprisingly, identified massive data-collection potential in virtually all of the apps examined.
In the meantime, the test format has evolved into an independent certification test and has been adjusted and expanded in several areas. And since dating apps remain incredibly successful—especially at this time of year—and represent a more than worthy challenge for our test format and every aspect of it, we would like to take the opportunity to take a closer look at this category once again.
What has changed? And could any of these apps actually have a chance of earning our approved privacy seal? Let’s find out.
Further information on the methodology behind our privacy analysis and the corresponding certification is available on our website.
To the full article »
