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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: 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.
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