Social event planning app Partiful, also known as “Facebook events for hot people,” has replaced Facebook as the go-to place for sending party invites. However, like Facebook, Partiful also collects user data.
The hosts can create online invitations in a retro style, which allows users to RSVP to events easily. The platform strives to be user-friendly and trendy, which has made the app No.9 on the Apple store, and Google has called it “the best app” of 2024.
About Partiful
Partiful has recently developed into a Facebook-like social graph; it maps your friends and also friends of friends, what you do, where you go, and your contact numbers. When the app became famous, people started doubting its origins, alleging that the app had former employees of a data-mining company. TechCrunch, however, found that the app was not storing any location data from user-uploaded images, which include public profile pictures.
Metadata in photos
The photos that you have on your phones have metadata, which consists of file size, date of capture. With videos, Metadata can include information such as the type of camera used, the settings, and latitude/longitude coordinates. TechCrunch discovered that anyone could use the developer tools in a web browser to get raw user profile photos access from Partiful’s back-end database on Google Firebase.
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