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>> For many years they were sending the private HIV status & sexual orientation information for millions of people to third party analytics in plain text Are.

>> For many years they were sending the private HIV status & sexual orientation information for millions of people to third party analytics in plain text Are. You. Fucking. Kidding me? Grindr must’ve been started by the gay community, yeah? Why the hell are we doing this to ourselves?!

agentdrtran 4y ago
They haven't been owned by a gay person in years, AFAIK
ARandomerDude 4y ago
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bigDinosaur 4y ago
The information in apps like Grindr is more sensitive than other apps (e.g. Tinder) but it's probable that most apps are selling, or have sold in the past, most user information that they can garner. What's the incentive to do it securely, or to provide proper anonymisation?
klabb3 4y ago
I got really pissed both times Facebook leaked my phone and email. Imagine being HIV positive and having that leaked. God, I can't even imagine. And I assume, as usual, that there is no decent victim compensation or punishment for the perpetrators. Heck, they surely get to keep all the dirty money too. The silver lining here is finally an argument for privacy that has very little risk of being shut down as "hypothetical", which is always a dead end for most low-key privacy debates.
- nailer 4y ago
  I do some commercial dance and when I started I began getting targeted ads for managing HIV, which would be enough to identity one of the small group of men I dance with as having HIV.
unicornporn 4y ago
> Grindr must’ve been started by the gay community, yeah? Why the hell are we doing this to ourselves?! That question is harder to answer if you adhere to identity politics and easy to answer if you apply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Marxism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Marxism
MisterTea 4y ago
Did you do any research before posting this knee-jerk?
fennecfoxy 4y ago
It got sold to a Chinese company afaik.

agentdrtran 4y ago

They haven't been owned by a gay person in years, AFAIK

ARandomerDude 4y ago

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bigDinosaur 4y ago

The information in apps like Grindr is more sensitive than other apps (e.g. Tinder) but it's probable that most apps are selling, or have sold in the past, most user information that they can garner. What's the incentive to do it securely, or to provide proper anonymisation?

klabb3 4y ago

I got really pissed both times Facebook leaked my phone and email. Imagine being HIV positive and having that leaked. God, I can't even imagine. And I assume, as usual, that there is no decent victim compensation or punishment for the perpetrators. Heck, they surely get to keep all the dirty money too. The silver lining here is finally an argument for privacy that has very little risk of being shut down as "hypothetical", which is always a dead end for most low-key privacy debates.

nailer 4y ago
I do some commercial dance and when I started I began getting targeted ads for managing HIV, which would be enough to identity one of the small group of men I dance with as having HIV.

unicornporn 4y ago

> Grindr must’ve been started by the gay community, yeah? Why the hell are we doing this to ourselves?! That question is harder to answer if you adhere to identity politics and easy to answer if you apply https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Marxism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Marxism

MisterTea 4y ago

Did you do any research before posting this knee-jerk?

fennecfoxy 4y ago

It got sold to a Chinese company afaik.