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> Consent must be unambiguous, informed, specific and freely given.

A bit ironic, for a dating app.

If I'm not wrong, dating apps are among the worst for user privacy. Google `dating apps user privacy` and you'll find no shortage of news articles.

They are places where people write profiles and post their pictures.

They seem somewhat scary to me, in that anyone one knows might encounter one on it.

Are you perhaps talking about services owned by Match group[1]? Though Grindr is not on the list, so maybe unrelated services are the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Group#Dating_services_ow...

Yeah, same thoughts. The gdpr didn’t change much but made small companies like these more vulnerable and web browsing more unbearable. Data is still getting collected and big companies don’t care.

> The gdpr didn’t change much but made small companies like these more vulnerable and web browsing more unbearable. Data is still getting collected and big companies don’t care.

You do know that GDPR fines scale with revenue?

Do you see Google, Microsoft and Apple? It’s nearly been 3 years and they don’t really seem to care. Pretty sure the EU is too scared to touch them.

Two years ago Google was fined 50 million euros by the French regulator. Last year it was 7 million by the Swedish. More will come.

WhatsApp's privacy update differed quite a lot between the EU and the US. That alone shows that the big tech corps are careful.

That's partly down to agreements with the EU competition regulator from the acquisition, AIUI.

> In March 2020, Kunlun announced that it will sell its 98.59% stake in Grindr to U.S.-based San Vicente Acquisition LLC for $608.5 million

You may be using a slightly expansive definition of 'small company'.

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