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no more special than for straight people
Grindr collects and share quite a lot. Things such as HIV status, sexual preferences, body type, advertising ids, or GPS coordinates. To third parties from the app, and not always using encryption.
If data sharing was conditioned on not paying for the app use, than this could be against what this forum usually stand for.
I, too, will happily pay for my data being not used and seeing no ads.
Wee need more details about this case.
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Why do you say that? The app was founded in LA where I wouldn't describe the gay scene as vulnerable. Is the situation in Normay different?
Being gay can still get you arrested or killed in some countries of the world. Even if not, discrimination of gay people surely is a thing all over the world. Besides that, dating apps of any kind should be held to very high data protection standards for the sometimes very delicate matters.
Has everyone just decided that words have no meaning anymore?
Great news! They have been preying on a very vulnerable community.
Are gay men in Norway a very vulnerable community? My impression was no, but I’m willing to have that countered
Further, there are still people living in the closet here, afraid to come out for fear of being disowned by their family or ostracized by their community. Grindr plays a double-edged sword here, because on the one hand it gives people a chance to meet others, but it also creates a risk of them being outed. --That makes people vulnerable to blackmail.
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Benefit is equal access to Common Market as an EU member.
Sorry, I meant benefit of EEA over EU membership.
E.g. Switzerland can still have customs and charge customs charges on some items.
NYOB seems to be a great company. I have heard of their lawsuits against Apple, Facebook and now a large fine against Grindr. If anyone wants to help them - https://noyb.eu/en/support-us . (no affiliation)
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Being gay can still get you arrested or killed in some countries of the world. Even if not, discrimination of gay people surely is a thing all over the world. Besides that, dating apps of any kind should be held to very high data protection standards for the sometimes very delicate matters.
Being Hindu can get you killed in some countries too, that doesn't make me, a Hindu, in the UK, vulnerable. Has everyone just decided that words have no meaning anymore?
Yes. It seems a lovely social media trend. And on instagram many (most?) people don't seem to actually be able to use words, only emoji's. Not sure if that's worse or better.
Didn'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?
> The EEA Agreement does not cover the following EU policies: common agriculture and fisheries policies (although the EEA Agreement contains provisions on trade in agricultural and fish products); customs union; common trade policy; common foreign and security policy; justice and home affairs (the EEA EFTA States are however part of the Schengen area); direct and indirect taxation; or economic and monetary union.
See section 5, "What is not covered by the EEA Agreement?": https://www.efta.int/eea/eea-agreement/eea-basic-features
Didn'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...