Re:Grindr user data has been for sale for years
by aerostable_slug on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @12:48PM
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My claim is that for a large number of Americans, it's probably worse to be outed for seeking extra-relationship (I'm not sure of the proper term) casual sex than for being gay/bi/queer. Of course, both of those could be revealed at the same time which would be quite the double-whammy to an unsuspecting partner.
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Re:Grindr user data has been for sale for years
by throwanem on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @06:00PM
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Oh, I see what you mean.
I'm not sure I agree, though. In an open relationship it'd be no surprise to my partner if I were using Grindr (he probably would be too, in that case!) and I think therefore that'd be more or less orthogonal to the concern around the risk of forcible outing posed by Grindr's misuse of data. Both are certainly of concern, but I think independently so.