Interview Dating apps ask people to reveal all kinds of personal information in hopes of finding them love, or at least a hookup.
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What many may not know is that the majority of these corners of lonely hearts soak up far more user information than they need, and they also do a terrible job of protecting the private data they have collected. The Mozilla Foundation's latest research scouted popular dating apps and slapped Privacy Not Included warning labels on 22 of the 25 reviewed.
The Register sat down with Zoë MacDonald, researcher and writer for Privacy Not Included, to discuss the findings, and you can watch our conversation below.
As well as harvesting things like photos and details about your race, religion, political views, sexual preferences, HIV status and weight – a quarter of the apps surveyed also collected metadata from users' content. And at least one can store video chats, we're told.
