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PictureThis

Plant Identifier

#1 Education

iOS Review

4 TRACKERS
249 ATTEMPTS
PRIVACY
RATING
C
PRIVACY
RATING
C

There was a constant stream of connections with trackers from Facebook, Google, and Appsflyer - none of which is relevant to identifying plants. That's a ton of data considering this is the #1 downloaded Education app on the App Store. Real life plant experts don't send your data to Facebook you when you ask them to identify a plant.

PictureThis's Privacy Rating is C. We found 4 different third-party trackers in the PictureThis app, and there were 249 attempted tracking connections detected during our test.

Testing Results

Blocked tracking attempts.

How was tracker testing done?

Tested using Lockdown 0.3.9

What was done during the test?

249 attempts in 5 minutes of: signing up, identifying a plant, tapping into community and profile.

How many tracking attempts each time the app is opened?

21.

Did user give consent to tracking before tracking started?

No, tracking starts immediately after app starts with no user agreement.

Personal Data Collected
🖼 Photos
📍 Location
📷 Camera
Trackers Found
AppsFlyer

Marketing

Mobile Ad Attribution Platform

Privacy Policy: Unique identifiers, IP address, User agent, the URL from the referring website, downloads and installations of Applications, and other interactions, events, actions, Customer issued user ID, clicks on Customer ads, ad impressions viewed, audiences or segments to which an ad campaign is attributed, the type of ads and the webpage or Application from which such ads were displayed, the webpages on Customer’s website visited by an End User, IDFA (identifier for advertisers), Android ID; Google Advertiser ID, browser type, device type and model, CPU, system language, memory, OS version, Wi-Fi status, time stamp and zone, device motion parameters, carrier.

Facebook Pixel

Analytics

Marketing

Measure Ad Performance

Privacy Policy: Anything present in HTTP headers - IP addresses, information about the web browser, page location, document, referrer and person using the website, Pixel ID and the Facebook Cookie, any buttons clicked by site visitors, the labels of those buttons and any pages visited as a result of the button clicks, Developers and marketers can optionally choose to send additional information, website field names like ‘email’, ‘address’, ‘quantity’ for when you purchase a product or service

Google Crashlytics

Analytics

Realtime issue reporting

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.

Google Analytics

Analytics

Marketing

Measure Advertising ROI

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.

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