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>I'm surprised Grindr doesn't "fuzz" the location enough to at least make it much less accurate. Why would they? Doing that would make their data less valuable
by colpabar 5y ago
>I'm surprised Grindr doesn't "fuzz" the location enough to at least make it much less accurate.
Why would they? Doing that would make their data less valuable. Just because grindr is the "gay hookup app" doesn't necessarily mean that the people who operate it care about gay people's (or anyone's) privacy. According to this [0], grindr ranks #4 of all mobile apps when it comes to collecting personal information. It's a free app that requires your location to use it, which means that it's a personal info collection app first, and a dating app second.
[0]: https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/data-grabbing-apps/762166/ https://www.komando.com/security-privacy/data-grabbing-apps/...
- aqme28 5y agoThere's a difference between the location data Grindr serves to its users and the location data they acquire to use internally. You're talking about the latter, but OP is talking about the former.
- colpabar 5y agoIs there a difference? I have used grindr, and if someone is close enough, it will say they are "x feet away." They are well aware of the precision of the location data they serve to users, because it's a feature.
- tyingq 5y agoIt may not be clear to end users that anyone, anywhere, can pull location data for everyone with not a lot of effort.
- tyingq 5y agoProviding everyone's exact location data to anyone that can extract a key from an apk just seems dangerous to me. Fuzzing, rate-limiting, etc, seems prudent. I understand you're saying Grindr doesn't care though.