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.