Popular dating apps like Tinder and Grindr are sharing the personal data of their users to third parties in breach of EU regulations, a Norwegian consumer rights group said Tuesday.
According to the government-funded non-profit organisation, the sharing of this data implicitly discloses users' sexual orientations. "Every time you open an app like Grindr, advertisement networks get your GPS location, device identifiers and even the fact that you use a gay dating app," Austrian activist Max Schrems said in a statement by the NCC.The dating app Tinder is also accused of sharing user data with at least 45 companies owned by the Match Group, which operates a dating website of the same name.
Some 20 months since the EU's General Data Protection Regulation took effect in May 2018,"consumers are still pervasively tracked and profiled online," the report said."Consumers have no meaningful ways to resist or otherwise protect themselves from the effects of profiling different forms of discrimination and exclusion," the statement said.