Bird privacy rating

Summary

Bird is not graded yet: 30% of its criteria have evidence, and 60% is needed. It meets 1 of 10 criteria: TLS configuration. It partly meets security headers. It does not meet open source. Still needing evidence: no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, message content deleted or redacted and EU data location. It is based in the Netherlands: Nine Eyes member; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B+.

Not graded yet: 30% of criteria have evidence, 60% needed. How scoring works

Criteria

• ✖No

  Open source ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Is all the source code needed to run the product public?

  Closed source.

• ?Unknown

  No trackers or telemetry ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?

  Needs evidence. Add it

• ?Unknown

  No ads or data sales ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?

  Needs evidence. Add it

• ?Unknown

  Independent audit ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?

  Needs evidence. Add it

• ?Unknown

  Transparency report ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?

  Needs evidence. Add it

• ?Unknown

  Tells users about requests ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?

  Needs evidence. Add it

• ?Unknown

  Message content deleted or redacted ×3Weight 3 of 3

  Can the text of messages be kept from being stored after delivery?

  Needs evidence. Add it

• ?Unknown

  EU data location ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Can messages, call records and logs be processed and stored in the European Union?

  Needs evidence. Add it

Automated tests

• ✔Yes

  TLS configuration ×2Weight 2 of 3

  Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?

  Grade A+

  ssllabs.com

• ◐Partial

  Security headers ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?

  Grade B+ (80/100+)

  developer.mozilla.org

• …Not tested yet

  Modern web standards ×1Weight 1 of 3

  Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?

  Not tested yet.