A new study reveals how popular dating apps could be compromising user privacy by exposing their locations through trilateration.
The study reveals that six popular dating apps expose users to three different forms of trilateration, a technique that could be used to determine their precise location.A new study published by the University of KU Leuven in Belgium analyzed 15 popular dating apps to assess the risks of location-based services on users’ personal and sensitive data.
First, the researchers evaluated how easily someone with malicious intent could create an account and extract user data. Next, they measured the personal data shared by these apps, including sensitive attributes, dating-sensitive data, and users’ exact locations. Finally, they examined “howsharing represents the “most severe violations” as users might be unaware of what information could be leaked in a dating world that values choice, open communication, and protection.
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