It’s standard practice for most companies using data and cookies. The company using the data will not know your personal details or be able to target you specifically, but it might learn general information about groups of users. The argument for this is that the data it sells is not personal, but broad. It can legally sell huge tranches of its users data to third-parties, with around 135 companies said to have worked with Grindr. Grindr, like many other companies, profits from our data. But the case significant, not least due to the fine representing 10% of the company’s turnover – the highest level for a GDPR breach. $10 million fine was issued, might seem remote to the millions of Grindr users across the Americas. That criticism led to a court case and, ultimately, a massive fine. Grindr is now active in nearly every country in the world and has millions of users.īut with success comes scrutiny, and Grindr has been facing a lot of criticism of late, particularly over how it uses the data of those millions of users. Today, it’s much more than the hook-up app that caught the headlines with its release over a decade ago. It’s a global success story born from a simple idea – connecting gay men through GPS. Grindr is probably the world’s best-known social networking app for LGBTI people.
