{"id":14181,"date":"2024-04-22T07:37:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/lawsuit-in-london-to-allege-grindr-shared-users-hiv-status-with-ad-firms\/"},"modified":"2024-04-22T07:37:14","modified_gmt":"2024-04-22T05:37:14","slug":"lawsuit-in-london-to-allege-grindr-shared-users-hiv-status-with-ad-firms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/lawsuit-in-london-to-allege-grindr-shared-users-hiv-status-with-ad-firms\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit in London to allege Grindr shared users\u2019 HIV status with ad firms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High court action will claim US owner allowed access to app users\u2019 private information in breach of UK law<\/p>\n<p>Grindr faces the prospect of legal action by hundreds of users who will allege that the dating app shared highly sensitive personal information, including in some cases their HIV status, with advertising companies.<\/p>\n<p>The law firm Austen Hays is to file a claim on Monday in London\u2019s high court alleging that the US owner of the app breached British data protection laws.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/22\/lawsuit-in-london-to-allege-grindr-shared-users-hiv-status-with-ad-firms\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c12c09cfeeb8213c386fa708a7fd31a67fe0de01\/0_223_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=bfd9782aa7a89dcf3baf8b449e278234\" title=\"Lawsuit in London to allege Grindr shared users\u2019 HIV status with ad firms\" \/>High court action will claim US owner allowed access to app users\u2019 private information in breach of UK law<br \/>\nGrindr faces the prospect of legal action by hundreds of users who will allege that the dating app shared highly sensitive personal information, including in some cases their HIV status, with advertising companies.<br \/>\nThe law firm Austen Hays is to file a claim on Monday in London\u2019s high court alleging that the US owner of the app breached British data protection laws. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High court action will claim US owner allowed access to app users\u2019 private information in breach of UK law Grindr faces the prospect of legal action by hundreds of users who will allege that the dating app shared highly sensitive personal information, including in some cases their HIV status, with advertising companies. The law firm &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/22\/lawsuit-in-london-to-allege-grindr-shared-users-hiv-status-with-ad-firms\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lawsuit in London to allege Grindr shared users\u2019 HIV status with ad firms<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}