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Comment: In US priest's alleged Grindr outing episode, a raft of unheeded privacy warnings

By Richard Vanderford ( July 28, 2021, 22:14 GMT | Comment) -- The hookup app Grindr, and its lax data protection policies, have jumped into headlines after the resignation of a prominent Catholic priest whose use of the app was allegedly tracked based on supposedly anonymized data. The episode exemplified a scenario the US Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly warned about. Grindr, which earlier this year was fined in Europe over its weak data privacy practices, will certainly face additional scrutiny following the priest's outing, but the company did warn users that their data was for sale.The hookup app Grindr, and its lax data protection policies, have jumped into headlines after the resignation of a prominent Catholic priest whose use of the app was tracked based on supposedly anonymized data. The episode exemplified a scenario the US Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly warned about....

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