Such practices could have major knock-on effects for users, with the WSJ noting that a US Catholic official was “outed” as a Grindr user last year following analysis of similar data. However, the WSJ alleges that historical data could still be available, including “the precise movements” of Grindr users. Grindr privacy fearsĬiting “people familiar with the matter”, the WSJ says that the information first went on sale in 2017, with Grindr ending the practice two years ago to help protect its users from such rampant data collection practices. The problems meant that third parties were able to to purchase data on millions of Grindr users, to be used for any number of purposes without the users knowing anything. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) has alleged that the gay dating app suffered issues between 20 due to a flaw in some of its advertising networks. Dating app Grindr has reportedly been affected by a serious privacy flaw that left the location data of millions of users open to view and steal.
