How private is private? Checking Trustwallet

By favicon | fav | 7 May 2020


 

TrustWallet made a very bold claim on twitter,

Source: https://twitter.com/btsfav/status/1257958859051802629

Source: https://twitter.com/btsfav/status/1257958859051802629

And two minutes later in duckduckgo, I knew that those claims are not exactly true.

See: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.wallet.crypto.trustapp/latest/

 

The very first tracker Branch is collecting your IP among other data. Since there is no TOR connection, they access any and all your personal data.

Not to mention all the other trackers they push on you.

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So... if they lie about collecting personal information, do they lie about (not) collecting wallet data too?

Who knows, but this is certainly shady business.


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