Posted on 09/17/2026 8:00:35 AM PDT by fwdude
The popular gay dating and hookup app Grindr agreed to pay £26 million (about $35 million) to settle a lawsuit over allegations that it shared users’ personal information, including their ethnicity, sexual orientation and, in some cases, HIV status, with third parties, reports The Guardian. The settlement ends the class-action lawsuit filed in the High Court of England and Wales in 2024, though Grindr continues to deny liability.
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Launched in 2009 and based in Los Angeles, Grindr bills itself as “the largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans and queer people. We have millions of daily users who use our location-based technology in almost every country in every corner of the planet.”
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So, is it "shout your HIV status" or are they supposed to still keep it under wraps? I'm so confused.
I have no clue what that is.
If they are posting their status what do they think will happen. Be like a hetero guy puts he abuses women on a dating app sign-in/profile then getting mad they released it.
Homos are not the smartest tools in the shed, especially the ones that come down with AIDS.
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