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Dating app Grindr fined $M over privacy breach
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Norway’s data privacy watchdog on Wednesday fined gay dating app Grindr 65 million kroner ($ million) for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users’ consent — a breach of strict European Union privacy rules.
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority said it imposed its highest fine to date because the California-based company didn’t comply with the EU’s tough data protection regulations. Norway isn’t a member of the nation bloc but closely mirrors the rules of the European Union.
In , Norway’s Consumer Council filed a complaint against Grindr for disclosing information about its users, including GPS locations, IP addresses, ages, gender and their use of the app, to several third parties for marketing purposes. That allowed users to be identified and third parties to potentially disseminate personal information further.
The data privacy watchdog said users “were forced to acknowledge the privacy policy in its entirety to use the app” and were not asked specifically if
Book Launch: Immigrants on Grindr: Race, Sexuality and Belonging Online
Presentation by Assistant Professor Andrew Shield, Institute for History, Leiden University. Introduction by Marie Sandberg, AMIS, University of Copenhagen.
About the book
This book examines the role of hook-up apps in the lives of gay, bi, trans, and queer immigrants and refugees, and how the online culture of these platforms promotes belonging or exclusion. Within the context of the so-called European refugee crisis, this research focuses on the experiences of immigrants from especially Muslim-majority countries to the greater Copenhagen area, a region known for both its progressive ideologies and its anti-immigrant practices. Grindr and similar platforms combine newcomers with not only dates and sex, but also friends, roommates and other logistical contacts. But these socio-sexual platforms also become spaces of racialization and othering. Weaving together analyses of real Grindr profile texts, immigrant narratives, political rhetoric, and popular media, Immigrants on Grindr provides an in-depth see at
Grindr culture: Intersectional and socio-sexual
Introduction
The concept of intersectionality – as it arose from black feminist critique – emphasizes that discrimination on multiple axes (e.g. race and sex) can be synergistic: an individual does not merely experience the additive aspects of discriminations (e.g. racism plus sexism) but can undergo a larger weight as these systems of power perform in various contexts (Crenshaw, ). Intersectionality arose from critiques of patriarchy in African-American movements and of white supremacy in feminist movements. Hence, the concept has always acknowledged discrimination within repressed groups. Drawing from these critiques, this research note explores intersectionality within a space for primarily gay men: the online culture of Grindr, a networking app available exclusively on smartphones since its inception in In this verb, I present empirical data from on-going research about how immigrants use and experience Grindr in the greater Copenhagen area.
Grindr facilitates communication between strangers in close proximity via public profi
Not everyone’s best assets shine through via Grindr. Public profiles center on one profile photo, about fifty words of text, and some drop-down menus. Visual cues dominate, and many find it difficult to transport aspects of their personality—humor, wit, charm—or stature, voice timbre, and so forth.
Many immigrants and people of color verb racism on Grindr: “I apologize but asians is a polite ‘no verb you,’” declares one Copenhagener brusquely on his profile. One Arab interviewee confronted more racism and xenophobia on Grindr than offline: “On Grindr usually people just say whatever they want to. Because they don’t know you, and there is a distance, and it’s only chat.” Offline, people avoid confrontation. In a gay bar setting, this might mean that fewer would flatly deny conversation based on one’s race.
Relatedly, Grindr can be difficult for “discreet” users who are unwilling to verb clear face photos for privacy reasons. A Middle Eastern interviewee preferred not to share photos via Grindr due to concerns about members of his diasporic community learning that he was gay. Ult