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QuoteY?all better be careful when y?all sign up on these dating apps because you never know what private information they?re sharing with other companies. The popular gay dating app Grindr says it will stop sharing user data, including HIV status to other companies after consumer concerns over privacy violations.

According to USA Today, the app, which has over 3 million daily active users, made the announcement Tuesday. The company said it would no longer share users HIV status with app optimization company Apptimize.

Via USA:

Acknowledgement of the data sharing, which Grindr security chief Bryce Case defended as ?standard industry practice for rolling out and debugging software,? followed a report by Buzzfeed News ? citing research from Norwegian nonprofit SINTEF ? on the sharing of HIV information with users? GPS data, phone ID and email, which could make it possible for the companies to identify sensitive information about specific users.

?There is a major difference between a company like Grindr sharing encrypted data with a software vendor to debug its app, and having it harvested from an outside third party like Cambridge Analytica which is not what is happening here,? Case said in a statement to USA TODAY.

What?s interesting about this is users apparently weren?t even given the heads up that their information was being shared with third-party vendors.

?Grindr is a relatively unique place for openness about HIV status,? James Krellenstein, a member of AIDS advocacy group ACT UP New York, told BuzzFeed News. ?To then have that data shared with third parties that you weren?t explicitly notified about, and having that possibly threaten your health or safety ? that is an extremely, extremely egregious breach of basic standards that we wouldn?t expect from a company that likes to brand itself as a supporter of the queer community.?

Quote from: Pearls on April 03, 2018, 06:38:42 PM
Honestly, if you have an account I kinda feel like u deserve aids.

Quote from: Baph al Mana. on April 03, 2018, 07:27:20 PM
I don't see the problem tbh. Im being dead serious.

Quote from: M'Baku on April 03, 2018, 07:28:57 PM

Quote from: Baph al Mana. on April 03, 2018, 07:27:20 PM
I don't see the problem tbh. Im being dead serious.

Quote from: BowDown on April 03, 2018, 07:13:45 PM
I didn?t see my name in the title, wtf Ton.

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Quote from: BowDown on April 03, 2018, 07:13:10 PM
They def have Kaeli?s info, I almost feel sorr for the bitch.

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Quote from: BowDown on April 03, 2018, 07:13:45 PM
I didn?t see my name in the title, wtf Ton.

:omgwatshappening:

Quote from: LORD GRAND SUPREME PRIME CELESTIAL MARSHALL on April 03, 2018, 09:24:40 PM

Quote from: BowDown on April 03, 2018, 07:13:10 PM
They def have Kaeli?s info, I almost feel sorr for the bitch.

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