Dating Privacy Collective Launch [en]
Launch 12 Feb 19h30 (CET time, Paris/Bern)
“Dating Privacy” Collective Launch: Our Plan To Change the ‘Data for Dates’ Paradigm — This Friday 12th Feb at 19h30 Swiss Time
The world of online dating didn’t escape surveillance capitalism — little you tell your dating app(s) remains private.
So while you craft a profile, chat, swipe, date and date again, know that your trusty digital matchmaker (Tinder, Grindr, OkCupid, Parship, Hinge, etc.) is sharing personal data with numerous third parties. This means not only unwanted ads, but also harms resulting from incorrect profiling and predictions, the possibility of phishing and identity theft.
You establish trust with other users, but do you trust your dating app?
Grindr was just fined €10M for giving advertising companies user sexual orientation data and precise locations without proper consent. But which other apps are doing the same — or worse — and how can we overhaul the data for dates exchange that no-one of us agreed to?
Dating Privacy is a collective of sociologists, activists, developers, lawyers, journalists and online daters delving into the internet dating ecosystem to expose malpractice and take control of our personal data.
This Friday — as close to Valentine’s Day as we could get — we launch our project. During the short session, we’ll present the risks you take when using dating apps, share practices to protect your privacy and explain how you can recover your data if you want to know what happens when you’re swiping and liking. We’ll also outline our first major data literacy project: one we want you to be involved in.
Date: Friday February 12
Time: 19:30–20:15 (Swiss Time)
Free registration link:
*If all participants are French speakers the presentation will be given in French
Dating Privacy wiki for more information: https://wiki.personaldata.io/wiki/Project:Dating_Privacy
Contact e-mail: datingprivacy@personaldata.io
Partners: MyData Vaud and personaldata.io https://wiki.personaldata.io/wiki/Main_Page
Start requesting your data now and be one step ahead: https://labs.letemps.ch/interactive/2020/demander-ses-donnees/
- Type in the dating app name you use
- Copy-paste the message and email address
- Send it and wait for your file
Collective Members:
Jessica Pidoux works on revealing biases in Tinder’s secretive matching algorithms.shttps://jessicapidoux.info/
Paul-Olivier Dehaye obtained the first personal data file from Tinder along with author Judith Duportail https://bit.ly/3cUOyTB
Frank has revealed privacy risks on Hinge and is currently being messed around by Hinge, Bumble and Tinder having asked for his data https://bit.ly/2J8mKOo
Marie-Pierre Vidonne maps the dating app ecosystem and delves into dating app patents
Judith H. digs into regulation policies and howonline dating interacts with collective practices and communities
