Celebrity Look Alike
#11 Photo & VideoiOS Review
Fairly obvious this is a cash-grab app designed to extract as much user data and money as possible. We scanned a celebrity photo (from their own app screenshot) and the resulting celeb lookalike was Kristen Stewart, and the result for the same photo was different each time. There's no technology involved here - however, what *is* impressive is that there is more tracker code than actual app code: most of the activity in this app is just hidden trackers for ad-optimization, targeting, and general exploitation of Apple App Store's lack of controls.
Celebs's Privacy Rating is F. We found 7 different third-party trackers in the Celebs app, and there were 112 attempted tracking connections detected during our test.
Blocked tracking attempts.
How was tracker testing done?
Tested using Lockdown v0.3.9
What was done during the test?
112 in five minutes - install app, open app, open app's Privacy Policy, then upload a photo to test functionality.
How many tracking attempts each time the app is opened?
27.
Did user give consent to tracking before tracking started?
No.
Analytics
User Data
Customer Data Platform
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Contact Information, Profile Information, Communications, Marketing Information, Financial Transaction Information, Device Data, Online Activity Data, Professional or Employment Information, User Preferences
Analytics
Realtime issue reporting
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Owned by Google, so same as Google's Privacy Policy. Personal information, email address, apps, browsers, devices, unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, and too much more to fit here.
Analytics
Marketing
Measure Advertising ROI
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Owned by Google, so same as Google's Privacy Policy. Personal information, email address, apps, browsers, devices, unique identifiers, browser type and settings, device type and settings, and too much more to fit here.
Analytics
Mobile Attribution
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy is quite vague while still allowing for basically any amount of data collection: Process personal information in conformance to the instructions provided by the client; Collect only the personal data that are necessary for fulfilling the purposes of which they are processed; Make personal data accessible only to a limited number of people whose job requires such access
Marketing
Mobile Marketing Platform
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Device make, model and operating system; Device properties related to screen size & orientation, audio volume and battery, device memory usage; Carrier; Operating system; Name and properties of mobile application through which a consumer interacts with the Services; Country, time zone and locale settings (country and preferred language); Network connection type and speed; IP Address; Internet browser user-agent used to access the Services; and Identifier for advertisers (IDFA).
Analytics
Product Analytics
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy just passes the responsibility of privacy onto the app using the tracker, meaning they collect basically anything they receive from the app.
Marketing
Analytics
Monetize Your Following
Show Collected Data ›Privacy Policy: Device make, model and operating system; Device properties related to screen size & orientation, audio volume and battery, device memory usage; Carrier; Operating system; Name and properties of mobile application through which a consumer interacts with the Services; Country, time zone and locale settings (country and preferred language); Network connection type and speed; IP Address; Internet browser user-agent used to access the Services; and Identifier for advertisers (IDFA).
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