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With the help of privacy activist Paul-Olivier Dehaye from personaldata.io and human rights lawyer Ravi Naik, I [Judith Duportail] emailed Tinder requesting my personal data and got back way more than I bargained for.
Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook "likes", my photos from Instagram (even after I deleted the associated account), my education, the age-rank of men I was interested in, how many times I connected, when and where every online conversation with every single one of my matches happened ... the list goes on.
"I am horrified but absolutely not surprised by this amount of data," said Olivier Keyes, a data scientist at the University of Washington. "Every app you use regularly on your phone owns the same [kinds of information]. Facebook has thousands of pages about you!"
As I flicked through page after page of my data I felt guilty. I was amazed by how much information I was voluntarily disclosing: from locations, interests and jobs, to pictures, music tastes and what I liked to eat. But I quickly realised I wasn't the only one. A July 2017 study revealed Tinder users are excessively willing to disclose information without realising it.
Um, duh?
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:48PM (10 children)
What's a Tinder?
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:02PM (4 children)
Apparently a place for clueless homosexuals to meet up.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:05PM (1 child)
So it's like a Linux user group meeting, but on your smartphone?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:54PM
I like to say GNU+Linux
(Score: 5, Funny) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:39AM (1 child)
Absolutely! You go on a dating app, you see someone named Judith, it could be a man. You could be getting a man. On the cyber, nobody really knows. You can't do the hand check. You know, if you’re young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam -- it’s called the dating game. Dating is like being in Vietnam. You’re the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. 🇺🇸
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:52AM
Are you talking about ladyboys from your vast personal experience?
(Score: 5, Funny) by RamiK on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:17PM (1 child)
I think that's the dating service Quagmire was getting hooked on in Family Guy.
Btw, if you ever want to screw their data collection, just lend you phone to your 10yr/old nephew. I went from NXP ads trying to sell me microprocessors and a dozen different SBCs and Arduinos to Dora the Explorer bluray holiday sales over a weekend. After that, I started lending my phones to all sorts of folks. I'm now seeing Hindi \ Urdu ads for what appears to be sari and Toyota Corolla 2015 hubcap. Just for the heck of it, I sometimes copy\paste the text ads into ebay to "show interest"... It only took one time for me to look up a woman's handbag and ever since then I've been bombarded with woman's shoe and jewelry ads. Powerful stuff.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:13AM
I let my dad borrow my phone and now I am seeing ads for Tinder?!?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:59PM
What's left after you apply 2-by-4s to the face of enough clueless smartphone users.
Sadly, there's not enough pine to get to them all. I need oak 2-by-4s.
(Score: 5, Informative) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday September 26 2017, @11:29PM (1 child)
An app for contracting STD's.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:27AM
Great, I had thought Star Trek was limited to only an online streaming service. Thanks for the heads up!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:02PM (1 child)
Ethanol-fueled [soylentnews.org], what are your stats? I'm sure 870 different people is like nothing compared to what you've accomplished.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @11:25PM
Probably only 2... Himself and Jack Daniels.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:07PM (4 children)
What does "the age-rank of men I was interested in" mean? What's an "age-rank"? How does that metric work?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:24PM
Cross reference age-rank and income-rank to decide whether she has daddy issues or whether she is simply a gold digger.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:24PM (2 children)
Subatlantic... Subboreal... Atlantic... Boreal... Preboreal...
As Twilight taught us, vampires are gay.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:30PM (1 child)
As the Strain taught us when that guy's dick fell off, vampires are sexless.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:20AM
But Nazi Vampire was into the blond...
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday September 26 2017, @11:31PM
You can edit /etc/hosts if you jailbreak your iToy, or you could use a VPN if you don't want to JB.
Three analytics vendors spoke at Mobile Portland a while back. All of them said their SDK is free to App developers. One of them showed us a photo of her company's data center.
Data Centers cost a huge quantity of Samoleons. _Somebody_ has to be paying for all that information.
Consider the problems faced by closeted-gay politicians.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by ese002 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:32AM (1 child)
All that data and yet the typical Tinder profile has four photos and no other content.
(Score: 2) by fraxinus-tree on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:10PM
The rest of information is used to match them. The typical Tinder user is not really able to use it in raw form.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by halcyon1234 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @01:02AM (2 children)
Original Submission [thedailywtf.com]
(Score: 4, Touché) by maxwell demon on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:03AM
Next in: "I discovered that Amazon knows what I bought there, how I paid for it, and where that stuff got delivered to. I'm shocked. Shocked, I say."
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by TheRaven on Wednesday September 27 2017, @10:15AM
First: TFS talks about not only the things that are collected from the app, but also from Facebook and Instagram. The ToS for all of these services typically all talk about data sharing, but no one both reads them and agrees to them (seriously: I challenge you to find one person who has both read and agreed to the Facebook ToS), so most users are completely unaware that their accounts on psychological manipulation platforms like Facebook are tied to their accounts on other services, or that tracking cookies in ad networks owned by these companies are able to track which news sources they read, which articles they spend the most time reading, and so on.
Second: Most people who don't have a background in maths or computer science (and a depressing number who do) don't understand what can be inferred from collected data, even if they do understand the amount of information being collected. For example, just the adds on Fox News and CNN alone lets you get a good first approximation of the political leanings and the hot-button issues for the majority of voters in the USA. Combine this with address information and you can construct a pretty good list of who the undecided voters are in every marginal constituency and what issues are likely to sway their vote. Oh, and Facebook will happily sell you advertising space targeting each group.
sudo mod me up
(Score: 3, Funny) by fraxinus-tree on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:25PM
Tinder is exactly the type of service that needs all the data it can gather in order to work.
The old and time-fashioned way of servicing men and women in their search for mate (usually done by old ladies for free or by friends for fun) uses comparable amount of information and even comparable methods of extracting it.