Grindr Is Letting Other Companies See User HIV Status And Location Data
Found on BuzzFeed on Monday, 02 April 2018
The two companies — Apptimize and Localytics, which help optimize apps — receive some of the information that Grindr users choose to include in their profiles, including their HIV status and “last tested date.”
“The HIV status is linked to all the other information. That’s the main issue,” Pultier told BuzzFeed News. “I think this is the incompetence of some developers that just send everything, including HIV status.”
Hopefully more and more such cases will become public so people start to realize how bad the extensive data collection and mining is. The "I have nothing to hide" argument just shows how delusional some are.