Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
1–10 of 21 posts
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#2I would love to know what % of gains from selling PII are the fines. The MO of breaking the law and paying the fines is never going to change with these laughable fines.
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#3"I don't need privacy, I don't have anything to hide."
Waiting for a good argument I can use to demolish that far too common sentiment, this will do for the time being. Disgraceful behaviour for a company to sell out its customers for pennies.
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#4"I don't need privacy, I don't have anything to hide." Waiting for a good argument I can use to demolish that far too common sentiment, this will do for the time being. Disgraceful behaviour for a company to sell out its customers for pennies.
Regardless of what you might think of Snowden, he has a good quip on this: "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#5"I don't need privacy, I don't have anything to hide." Waiting for a good argument I can use to demolish that far too common sentiment, this will do for the time being. Disgraceful behaviour for a company to sell out its customers for pennies.
You have nothing to hide from the current government (maybe). You don't know who will be in charge in 1, 10, 50 years. You might not need an Ahnenpaß right now, but do you really want evidence on record that will deny you one in 20 years time?
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#6"I don't need privacy, I don't have anything to hide." Waiting for a good argument I can use to demolish that far too common sentiment, this will do for the time being. Disgraceful behaviour for a company to sell out its customers for pennies.
Regardless of what you might think of Snowden, he has a good quip on this: "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
Also, I invite anyone who thinks they have "nothing to hide" to put a publicly accessible webcam in their home bathroom. Everyone has things they'd prefer to hide, and that doesn't imply anything nefarious is going on.
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#7I would love to know what % of gains from selling PII are the fines. The MO of breaking the law and paying the fines is never going to change with these laughable fines.
Point 6.4 discusses the justification in Norway, although their annual turnover data is blacked out. It looks like the authorities actually take this into account
and try to make the fine really hurt.
https://www.datatilsynet.no/contentassets/8ad827efefcb489ab1...
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#8Are the ad firms who buy this data immune to prosecution? Is legal to buy or own data if it's illegal to sell?
I'd hope that it's equally dangerous for both the buyers and sellers of this kind of data.
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#9[deleted]
Re: Grindr Sued in UK for Sharing Users' HIV Data with Ad Firms
#10The article was a bit vague, do the users enter the data in their profile or were they mining chats or something like that?