The Norway Consumer Council has ordered the dating app to purge any user data obtained through illegal means.
“The Consumer Council is now asking the Data Protection Authority to impose measures to ensure that the company also must identify and delete illegally collected personal data,” the Council said in a statement. “As long as this data is out there, it may be shared onward and be used by companies that monetize personal data for surveillance-based marketing and other purposes.”
Related: Norway slaps Grindr with whopping $12 million fine. Here’s why…
Reuters reports that the edict follows news earlier this year that Norway’s Data Protection Authority had opted to fine Grindr for $11.8 million over illegal use of user data. Grindr is accused of selling that data–which includes user locations, sexual interests, and other personal information–to advertising companies for additional revenue. In 2020, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the governing body which sets guidelines for the collection and use of personal data, found that Grindr violated European Union policy through its sharing of user information. Norway is not a member of the EU, though the nation does generally follow EU policy.
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Grindr has yet to comment on the demands.
tjack47
Good for them.
WindChime
Does anyone else feel that the sex obsessed men on these anonymous sex hookup sites deserve to be exploited and taken advantage of? Why can’t they just meet other decent men in church, temple, synagogue, or by volunteering?
Wentz
Gross. Who wants to meet a loser in cult? Better guys on grindr.
Toofie
If there’s a story involving sex, we can count on you to finger wag. How many men have you dated meeting at the church or temple? Lol!
yendor808
Yes, there are other alternatives to meeting guys and volunteering is one of them. But please keep in mind that not everybody is into that imaginary sky daddy/higher power kind of thing. Your judgement and assumptions are not helping. Not everyone on hook up sites is “sex obsessed.”
Iona Lexiss
Maybe because religion is best known as being a foundation for exclusion and hypocrisy. Religion, and the temples of hate that promote them for profit, are the definition of immorality–consistently promoting that “their” religion and the individuals that put money in plates and tythings in the mail to support them are better than others. In religion, there is ALWAYS someone that is lower than you on the social ladder.
Chrisk
Toofie
Now we know that castlesf I mean windchime likes closeted married dudes if that’s where he hunts for sex.
Cam
Funny how the same accounts that come on to defend Republican adulterers, Republicans who enabled child molesters like Jeffrey Epstein, Republicans like Jim Jordan who stood by while his students were being raped, all then come on to attack LGBTQ people for having sex.
Fahd
Gay consumers need the same protections as anyone else. As usual, good news out of Norway. Too bad about the weather.
ShowMeGuy
Norway’s weather only sucks 8 months out of the year. LOL
Toofie
LOL ChrisK
Cam
They should also penalize the executives personally who put the policy in place to break the law.