Swipe right for Surveillance
(PresseBox) - 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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About the AV-TEST Institute
AV-TEST is an independent supplier of services in the fields of IT Security and Antivirus Research, focusing on the detection and analysis of the latest malicious software and its use in comprehensive comparative testing of security products.
Due to the timeliness of the testing data, malware can instantly be analyzed and categorized, trends within virus development can be detected early, and IT-security solutions can be tested and certified. The AV-TEST Institute’s results provide an exclusive basis of information helping vendors to optimize their products, special interest magazines to publish research data, and end users to make good product choices.
AV-TEST has operated out of Magdeburg (Germany) since 2004 and employs more than 30 team members, professionals with extensive practical experience. The AV-TEST laboratories include 500 client and server systems, where more than 3,500 terabyte of independently-collected test data, containing both malicious and harmless sample information, are stored and processed.
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About the AV-TEST Institute
AV-TEST is an independent supplier of services in the fields of IT Security and Antivirus Research, focusing on the detection and analysis of the latest malicious software and its use in comprehensive comparative testing of security products.
Due to the timeliness of the testing data, malware can instantly be analyzed and categorized, trends within virus development can be detected early, and IT-security solutions can be tested and certified. The AV-TEST Institute’s results provide an exclusive basis of information helping vendors to optimize their products, special interest magazines to publish research data, and end users to make good product choices.
AV-TEST has operated out of Magdeburg (Germany) since 2004 and employs more than 30 team members, professionals with extensive practical experience. The AV-TEST laboratories include 500 client and server systems, where more than 3,500 terabyte of independently-collected test data, containing both malicious and harmless sample information, are stored and processed.
Datum: 11.02.2026 - 10:25 Uhr
Sprache: Deutsch
News-ID 732591
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Contact person: Erik Heyland
Town:
Magdeburg
Kategorie:
Telecommunication
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