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I Asked Tinder for My Data. It Sent Me 800 Pages of My Deepest, Darkest Secrets

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

Phoenix666 submitted:

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: 3, Interesting) by ese002 on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:32AM (1 child)

    by ese002 (5306) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @12:32AM (#573580)

    All that data and yet the typical Tinder profile has four photos and no other content.

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  • (Score: 2) by fraxinus-tree on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:10PM

    by fraxinus-tree (5590) on Wednesday September 27 2017, @05:10PM (#573889)

    The rest of information is used to match them. The typical Tinder user is not really able to use it in raw form.