Personal Sharing
‘I think you should be actually concerned,’ claims electronic policy manager of Norwegian Consumer Council
Dating apps like Grindr, OkCupid and Tinder are sharing users’ private information — including their areas and intimate orientations — with potentially a huge selection of shadowy third-party organizations, a brand new report has discovered.
The Norwegian customer Council, a government-funded organization that is non-profit stated it discovered “severe privacy infringements” with its analysis of online advertising businesses that track and profile smartphone users.
“we think you should be really concerned because we have uncovered actually pervasive monitoring of users on our cell phones, but in addition uncovered that it is very hard for people to accomplish any such thing about any of it as people,” Finn Myrstad, the council’s electronic policy manager, told As It Happens host Carol Off.
“Not just can you share [your information] with all the application you are utilizing, nevertheless the application is in change sharing it with possibly a huge selection of other programs that you have never ever been aware of.”
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