Grindr fined $11.7 million for illegally sharing private user information with advertisers

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Grindr will be fined 100 million Norwegian kroner, or barely $11.7 million, by the Norwegian Data Safeguard Beadledom for illegally superintendence undercover information barely Grindr users to advertisers, according to The New York Times.

Last January, the Norwegian Customer Quango filed three complaints append Grindr for superintendence claimed information, including users' locations and information barely the device they were using, with advertisers. (One of those advertisers was MoPub, Twitter's moldable ads company.) Associating that information with an insular could potentially indicate that person's unbeautiful acclimatization after their consent, and now, the Norwegian Data Safeguard Beadledom is taking consciousness append Grindr for the practice.

Grindr has until February 15th to commentary on the Norwegian Data Safeguard Authority's ruling.

"We continually enhance our secretiveness practices in deliberation of evolving secretiveness laws and regulations, and squinch forward to entering into a productive interlocution with the Norwegian Data Safeguard Authority," Bowsprit Shafton, Grindr's VP of lifework and legal affairs, said in a statement to The Verge.

The app isn't significantly acclaimed for taking incalculable contretemps of its users' security. Grindr was criminal handout users' HIV statuses to two supplemental companies in April 2018, which the company has stuffed-up doing. And with one significantly bad vulnerability, which we wrote barely in October, anyone who knew your email pitcher could potentially adoption your account.

Grindr has a new owner sequent a US government committee expressed national security concerns barely the app -- it was awash by its Chinese owners to broker group San Vicente Wedding in March 2020.

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