{"id":28047,"date":"2017-10-04T13:06:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T11:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28047"},"modified":"2018-10-16T22:17:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T20:17:55","slug":"i-asked-tinder-for-my-data-it-sent-me-800-pages-of-my-deepest-darkest-secrets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/10\/04\/i-asked-tinder-for-my-data-it-sent-me-800-pages-of-my-deepest-darkest-secrets\/","title":{"rendered":"I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets<\/a>” is a must read for any of you who believe in online privacy.\u00a0 Here’s a quote to get you started:<\/p>\n

At 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, I wrote \u201cHello!\u201d to my first ever Tinder match. Since that day I\u2019ve fired up the app 920 times and matched with 870 different people. I recall a few of them very well: the ones who either became lovers, friends or terrible first dates. I\u2019ve forgotten all the others. But\u00a0Tinder<\/a>\u00a0has not.<\/p>\n

The dating app has 800 pages of information on me, and probably on you too if you are also one of its 50 million users. In March I asked Tinder to grant me access to my personal data. Every European citizen is allowed to do so under\u00a0EU data protection law<\/a>, yet very few actually do, according to Legit Hookup Sites<\/a> and their associations.<\/p>\n

With the help of privacy activist\u00a0Paul-Olivier Dehaye<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0personaldata.io<\/a>\u00a0and human rights lawyer Ravi Naik, I emailed Tinder requesting my personal data and got back way more than I bargained for.<\/p>\n

Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook \u201clikes\u201d, 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 \u2026 the list goes on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

“I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets” is a must read for any of you who believe in online privacy.\u00a0 Here’s a quote to get you started: At 9.24pm (and one second) on the night of Wednesday 18 December 2013, from the second arrondissement of Paris, … Continue reading I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"I asked Tinder for my data. It sent me 800 pages of my deepest, darkest secrets #Tinder #privacy #social","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,62,1334],"tags":[384,1152,3557],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-privacy","tag-social-networks","tag-tinder"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t