Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out Gay Priests

Re:Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out ... by dariusj18 on Monday March 13, 2023 @11:28AM (#35137042)

I would assume that any data sales have some sort of written agreement for what the data will be used for. In this case it would be that the people who signed the agreement lied.

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Re:Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out ... by Eisenstein on Monday March 13, 2023 @01:48PM (#35139524)

> I would assume that any data sales have some sort of written agreement for what the data will be used for

Would you also assume that Grindr would have a privacy policy in the TOS which stipulates this as well? So, data buyer lied and thus made Grindr a liar to you, is Grindr the victim?

At what point do we have to say 'whoops, we got hacked/tricked/sloppy and your data is in the hands of bad guys, our bad' is not gonna fly any more. Shut them down. 1 Billion dollar fine next time Home Mart loses all customer files in a hack or SocialFace sells data to people who cause you to lose your livelihood for being gay.

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Re:Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out ... by dariusj18 on Monday March 13, 2023 @02:30PM (#35140242)

I agree, fine/prosecute everyone from top to bottom. But you would need to prove that Grindr wasn't doing it's due diligence. (That probably wouldn't be too hard)

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Re:Catholic Group Spends Millions on Dating App Data to Out ... by llampx on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @12:36AM (#35147501)

1. There may have been a sale without restrictions on purpose or usage of the data attached.

2. There may have been a sale to a third party, from which the group bought the data.

3. The group may have used a shell entity to buy the data.

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