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1.04M+
Smali classes read
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262+
Critical findings recorded
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970+
Weak points found and documented
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567+
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132+
SDK instances mapped
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Character.AI
PRIVATE
2026-06-30
109d ago
RESOLVED
CRITICAL
Character.AI starts twelve different advertising and analytics trackers, including Chinese ad networks, before its own age check ever appears, so it reads a device's advertising identifier from users, many of them minors at the time, before it has asked how old they are. It also records intimate AI conversations for internal replay and runs a biometric system that estimates a user's age from their face and behaviour.
ai.character.app. Character Technologies (US). A 12-network ad/analytics stack (incl. ByteDance Pangle + Mintegral) auto-inits via ContentProviders BEFORE the age gate fires - the protective architecture is downstream of the tracking, so an advertising identifier is accessed before the user is ever asked their age. Amplitude Session Replay on intimate AI conversations. Persona biometric liveness + behavioural age classifier on (then mostly minor) users = Art. 9/22. Firebase key hardcoded. No EU Art. 27 rep. R1 2026-06-30. Nine messages over 74 days drew only identical automated Zendesk account-export boilerplate, never a human reply. Case closed and published 2026-10-17, 19 days after the 2026-09-28 embargo.
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