Specialists had greeted with passion efforts through the world that is self-proclaimed biggest gay dating application to market regular HIV assessment and status disclosure—but the time and effort backfired poorly with all the revelation that Grindr was sharing the information, prompting requires a boycott.
The western Hollywood, California-based app that is dating which claims 3.6 million day-to-day active users globally, confirmed Monday it turned out sharing users’ individual data—including HIV status—with 3rd party software vendors.
The revelation dovetails with a furor over lax individual information protection at Twitter.
The social networking giant has come under withering scrutiny because it became understood that the Uk consulting company, Cambridge Analytica, harvested tens of millions of its users’ individual information to generate voter profiles for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign.
Grindr main technology officer Scott Chen desired to distance the dating application’s advertising mishap through the Twitter scandal, calling the sharing no further than “industry standard practice.”