Grindr app sued for sharing user data without permission

A lawsuit was filed against the dating app Grindr in England share sensitive user data with advertisers. The lawsuit was filed in the UK Supreme Court this Monday (22).

According to Austen Hays, the law firm representing the plaintiffs. The data of at least 670 people was made available to third parties by the platform without any permission. But the actual number of affected users To thousands of registered users.

In the lawsuit, the authors allege illegal data sharing occurred from the dating app focused on LGBTQ+ people Before 3 April 2018 and between 25 May 2018 and 7 April 2020. Apptimize and Localytics companies are shown as the recipients of the leaked information.

However, depending on the process, Grindr could offer details such as: sexual orientation, ethnicity, date of last HIV test, person’s HIV status and locationIt breaches UK data protection law. This information will be used to display personalized advertisements.

Grindr denies the app

Regarding the lawsuit, which has just been launched in the British court and may lead to thousands of lira in compensation to the authors, the dating application said: The allegations are based on “mischaracterization of practices from more than four years ago”. The company also said it takes privacy “extremely seriously.”

A spokesperson for the platform commented: “We are committed to protecting our users’ data and complying with all applicable data privacy regulations, including in the UK.” Reuters. Already Localytics and Apptimize did not comment.

It is worth remembering that: Grindr was included in the application in 2018 and later changed its privacy policy.As recalled by Record. At the time, the company stated that it did not sell the allegedly confidential data, but received a fine of 6.3 million euros (R$ 34.6 million at current prices) for violating the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).