Tag: Grindr

• Grindr Shares Location, Sexual Orientation Data, Study Shows

  14 January 2020

  Written by Sarah Syed , Natalia Drozdiak , and Nate Lanxon on Bloomberg.

  “Grindr is sharing detailed personal data with thousands of advertising partners, allowing them to receive information about users’ location, age, gender and sexual orientation…” … “‘Every time you open an app like Grindr, advertisement networks get your GPS location, device identifiers and even the fact that you use a gay dating app,’ said Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems.”

  Read ‘Grindr Shares Location, Sexual Orientation Data, Study Shows’ on the Bloomberg site.

  Tagged with: Grindr, surveillance capitalism, privacy.