Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
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Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#2Note that this is 10% of revenue so it is quite substantial.
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#3GDPR contains special protections for LGBT people, but Grindr shared their users private information with third parties anyway, since they argued that Grindr users might be straight...
Pretty shocking and absurd.
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#4"Companies cannot just include external software into their products and then hope that they comply with the law. Grindr included the tracking code of external partners and forwarded user data to potentially hundreds of third parties - it now also has to ensure that these 'partners' comply with the law." – Ala Krinickytė, Data protection lawyer at noyb
This has a pretty wide impact, I'd say.
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#5Didn't know Norway has GDPR as they are not in the EU but apparently they have.
https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=34dfb199-c9ab...
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#6Didn't know Norway has GDPR as they are not in the EU but apparently they have. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=34dfb199-c9ab...
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Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#7GDPR contains special protections for LGBT people, but Grindr shared their users private information with third parties anyway, since they argued that Grindr users might be straight... Pretty shocking and absurd.
specifically,
> data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation
is among the things with stricter rules under Article 9: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#8Didn't know Norway has GDPR as they are not in the EU but apparently they have. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=34dfb199-c9ab...
EEA has all the laws and requirements of the EU but without representiation. So they have to follow the laws and rules but don't have a voice in the rules. I have no idea what the benefit of the EEA is for it's members other than political that they can say they're not in the EU but there must be some, maybe they don't need to pay in like EU members do?
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#9Didn't know Norway has GDPR as they are not in the EU but apparently they have. https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=34dfb199-c9ab...
EEA has all the laws and requirements of the EU but without representiation. So they have to follow the laws and rules but don't have a voice in the rules. I have no idea what the benefit of the EEA is for it's members other than political that they can say they're not in the EU but there must be some, maybe they don't need to pay in like EU members do?
Benefit is equal access to Common Market as an EU member.
Re: Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
EEA has all the laws and requirements of the EU but without representiation. So they have to follow the laws and rules but don't have a voice in the rules. I have no idea what the benefit of the EEA is for it's members other than political that they can say they're not in the EU but there must be some, maybe they don't need to pay in like EU members do?
Benefit is equal access to Common Market as an EU member.
Sorry, I meant benefit of EEA over EU membership.