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Grindr faces £8 5m fine for selling user data

news Grindr faces £8.5m fine for selling user data © Reuters LGBT dating app Grindr faces an £8.5m fine for illegally selling user data to advertisers. Norway’s Data Protection Authority plans to fine the platform 100m Norwegian Crowns, or around 10% of Grindr’s estimated global revenue. The popular social networking app for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and trans people has until 15 February to respond to the case. It has yet to reply to the BBC’s request for a comment. In a statement to the New York Times, a spokesperson for Grindr said it had obtained “valid legal consent from all” of its users in Europe on multiple occasions and was confident its “approach to user privacy is first in class” among social apps.

Grindr faces $11 7-million fine in Norway for breach of data privacy

Grindr faces US$11 7 million fine in Norway for breach of data privacy

Grindr faces $10m fine in Norway for illegal data sharing

Tuesday 26 January 2021 - 2:37pm File: Smartphone dating app Grindr. AFP/Martin Bureau OSLO - Smartphone dating app Grindr faces a record fine in Norway for illegally sharing user data with third parties, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said. Grindr, which claims to be the world s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people , is accused of sharing its users GPS coordinates, user profile data and the fact that the user is on Grindr, for marketing purposes. Our preliminary conclusion is that Grindr has shared user data to a number of third parties without legal basis, Data Protection Authority director-general Bjorn Erik Thon said in a statement.

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