Posted on 04/02/2018 9:39:54 AM PDT by C19fan
The gay hookup app Grindr, which has more than 3.6 million daily active users across the world, has been providing its users’ HIV status to two other companies, BuzzFeed News has learned.
The two companies — Apptimize and Localytics, which help optimize apps — receive some of the information that Grindr users choose to include in their profiles, including their HIV status and “last tested date.”
Because the HIV information is sent together with users’ GPS data, phone ID, and email, it could identify specific users and their HIV status, according to Antoine Pultier, a researcher at the Norwegian nonprofit SINTEF, which first identified the issue.
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Is there any big company that can be trusted?
Grindr, the cesspool of “dating” services.
“Is there any big company that can be trusted?“
No.
How the hell can anyone, “gay” or not, argue that their information is “private” or “sensitive” or “confidential” when they have posted it to dating web-site?
It’s an std exchange.
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