Hundreds of users sue Grindr for allegedly selling their HIV data to advertisers
by The Next Web
The Next Web— Grindr is being sued. The LGBTQ+ dating app is accused of sharing its users’ medical data with advertisers. This data includes their HIV status. UK law firm Austen Hays filed the claim at London’s High Court yesterday. The class action lawsuit represents hundreds of users of the app. Austen Hays claims that US-based Grindr breached UK data protection law by selling sensitive data to third parties without users’ consent. Aside from medical facts, this includes info about people’s...
Gay Today—Nearly 700 users sue Grindr for allegedly sharing HIV-status without consent. Over 670 Grindr users in the U.K. are suing the queer hook-up app for allegedly and non-consensually sharing their “highly sensitive” private information — including ethnicity, orientation, and HIV-status — […]
BBC News—Grindr sued for allegedly revealing users' HIV status. The LGBTQ+ dating app is being sued in a class action lawsuit over allegedly misusing users' data.
Boing Boing—Grindr sued over claims it revealed users' HIV status to advertisers. Hookup app Grindr is accused of revealing users' HIV status in a lawsuit filed in London's High Court. The lawsuit claims that user data was shared with Grindr's advertisers via "covert tracking technology," identifies more than 650 claimants, and claims thousands of users were affected. — Read the rest