Getting your data out of Tinder is really hard – but it shouldn't be
This article looks into the popular dating app, Tinder and their mass data storing of their users. A woman, With the help of privacy activist Paul-Olivier Dehaye from personaldata.io and human rights lawyer Ravi Naik, emailed Tinder requesting her personal data and got back more than she bargained for.It discusses how we can actually access all this data but typically most users don't realise it. The issue the writer discusses is how this data is harder to retrieve than it should be (as seen in the sub article above).- 50 million people are users of tinder.
- Tinder’s privacy policy clearly states your data may be used to deliver “targeted advertising”
- “You are lured into giving away all this information,” says Luke Stark, a digital technology sociologist at Dartmouth University.
Personally, I am not worried about this. These companies do not have enough time to individually pick through people's search histories and even if they did, most people's search history contains nothing incriminating. However. the very obvious targeted advertisements can be annoying.
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