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Grindr to pay £26m to settle claims it allegedly shared users’ HIV status
'Significant distress' The claims, brought more than two years ago by law firm Austen Hayes, alleged that Grindr had shared sensitive data with third parties for commercial purposes, breaching UK privacy laws.
Grindr became a publicly-listed company in 2022, two years after it was taken over by new owners Two data analytics services, Apptimize and Localytics, were identified as third parties with access to the sensitive data.
It followed revelations in 2018 that Grindr had been sharing personal data, including the HIV status of its users, with the two data analytics providers.
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