Grindr Admits It Shared HIV Status Of Users

Grindr Admits It Shared HIV Status Of Users Enlarge this image toggle caption Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images Updated at 12 p.m. BuzzFeed wrote: "Because the HIV information is sent together with users' GPS data, phone ID, and email, it could identify specific users and their HIV status, according to Antoine Pultier, a researcher at the Norwegian nonprofit SINTEF, which first identified the issue." Grindr also said that the information provided to vendors was encrypted, and that the company "has never, nor will we ever sell personally identifiable user information — especially information regarding HIV status or last test date — to third parties or advertisers." Grindr confirmed the change to NPR in an emailed statement on Tuesday, writing, "As the testing of our feature has completed, any information related to HIV status has been removed from Apptimized and we are in the process of discussing removal of this data from Localytics."