In the wake of Cambridge Analytica (CA) and Mark Zuckerberg’s congressional testimony, Bumble’s VP of worldwide advertising and communications Louise Troen mentioned “many” of its over 30 million customers had been searching for a special sign-up/log-in technique. As you would possibly anticipate, Bumble bought entry to issues like your folks record, favored pages and extra in an effort to seek out higher matches. If you join with a cellphone quantity, nevertheless, you may bypass Facebook completely and should add all your personal pictures and profile info.

Don’t thoughts the Facebook connection? It’s nonetheless a login/sign-up possibility. But how lengthy earlier than the next CA happens? During his testimony final week Zuckerberg mentioned that it was absolutely investigating app-data entry from the time of CA to make sure there weren’t different knowledge abuses. If Facebook’s privateness nightmares proceed, you may in all probability anticipate an increasing number of corporations will cease constructing their providers on high of the social community.