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"Carrie Goldberg, an attorney who specializes in sexual privacy violations, offered one example of the potential harm from her own case work: A plaintiff whose
by jimbob45 7y ago
"Carrie Goldberg, an attorney who specializes in sexual privacy violations, offered one example of the potential harm from her own case work: A plaintiff whose ex repeatedly created fake profiles of him on Grindr, a gay dating app, putting him at risk for assault.
The ex would “post my client’s geographic information, and then send people” to his home and workplace, looking for sex, Goldberg said. The plaintiff repeatedly flagged the issue to Grindr, to no avail, and a subsequent lawsuit fell short of holding the company accountable in court. Grindr prevailed by invoking Section 230, she said."
This case seems like you could apply precedent to it. Dating services like this have been around for decades, using snail mail instead of apps. Surely someone did something like this back in the day, putting a dating ad in the singles section of a newspaper or something similar. Did the US sue the postal service back then? Did they sue the magazine?