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Re:Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties by cavanasm on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:02PM (#16736466)
The quiz app wasn't the real data source though was it? People who want to take the quiz have to press "yes" on a menu that vaguely mentions "We need your friends list" and things like that, and those permissions were used to harvest the data as far as I understood, not the quiz itself.
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Re:Grindr Shares Personal Information With Third-Parties by Asparagirl on Monday April 02, 2018 @01:16PM (#16736655)
Yes, the quiz was the bait to get to the real prize, your friends list and their info, likes, etc.

However, your answers to a different Facebook quiz in 2014 were scrutinized by Cambridge Analytica, who were looking for the “dark triad” of personality traits, scouting for sociopaths:

https://mobile.twitter.com/carolecadwalla/status/97590547206...

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