Dating sites privacy

Tinder may not get you a date. It will get your data.

Valentines come and go, but what you put online could be forever. After all, the algorithms that power these platforms are proprietary, and companies have no interest in dishing out intimate details about how they work, neither to us nor their competitors. As to whether these algorithms are actually better than the real world for finding love? And we need your help. Fill out this form to contribute to our reporting. First and foremost, whatever data you explicitly share with a dating app or site, the platform now has it.

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Millions of people are using online dating sites to search for love or connection, but users should beware: many online dating sites are taking short cuts in safeguarding the privacy and security of users. Here are six sobering facts about online dating services and a few suggestions for routing around the privacy pitfalls. The most pressing concern is that information about you may be exposed to future legal requests that might involve a criminal investigation, a divorce case, or even a legal tussle with an insurance company. As Joseph Bonneau explained , the main website provides an obfuscated URL for the photo to anyone it deems has permission to view it. What you can do about it: Look at the privacy policy of a website before you sign up and see what they say about how they treat data of deleted profiles. Remember that a privacy policy can change at any time; even if a site promises to discard your data upon deletion now, it could revise that policy tomorrow to hang on to data for a few months — or forever.

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This cuffing season, it’s time to consider the privacy of dating apps

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