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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday September 26 2017, @09:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the data-mining-gold dept.

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?


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:07PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:07PM (#573539)

    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

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:24PM (#573542)

    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)

    by RamiK (1813) on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:24PM (#573543)

    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)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 26 2017, @10:30PM (#573545)

      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

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 27 2017, @06:20AM (#573680)

        But Nazi Vampire was into the blond...