Homosexual relationship app Grindr is going through a mass information safety lawsuit in London from tons of of customers who allegedly had their non-public data, together with HIV standing, shared with third events with out consent, a regulation agency mentioned on Monday.
Regulation agency Austen Hays, which mentioned the lawsuit is being filed at London’s Excessive Courtroom, mentioned hundreds of Grindr customers in the UK could have been affected.
The agency alleges customers’ extremely delicate data, together with HIV standing and the date of their newest HIV take a look at, have been offered to 3rd events for business functions.
Grindr mentioned in a press release offered to the Guardian that it deliberate to “reply vigorously to this declare, which seems to be based mostly on a mischaracterisation of practices from greater than 4 years in the past”.
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Austen Hays mentioned round 670 folks had signed as much as the lawsuit over breaches mentioned to have taken place between 2018 and 2020, with probably hundreds extra becoming a member of the case.
Austen Hays’ Managing Director Chaya Hanoomanjee mentioned in a press release: “Grindr owes it to the LGBTQ group it serves to compensate these whose information has been compromised and have suffered misery consequently, and to make sure all its customers are secure whereas utilizing the app, wherever they’re, with out concern that their information could be shared with third events.”
Grindr didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark. The Guardian newspaper reported a Grindr consultant as saying: “We’re dedicated to defending our customers information and complying with all relevant information privateness rules, together with within the UK.
“We’re happy with our international privateness programme and take privateness extraordinarily severely.”
