Several popular apps are sharing user data—including highly personal information, such as dating choices and precise locations—in ways that could violate privacy laws, according to a report released today by the Norwegian Consumer Council.
For the report, titled Out of Control: How Consumers Are Exploited by the Online Advertising Industry, the government-funded nonprofit worked with cybersecurity company Mnemonic to analyze data traffic from 10 popular apps: Dating apps Tinder, OkCupid, Happn and Grindr; period tracker apps Clue and MyDays; makeup app Perfect365; children’s app My Talking Tom2; Qibla Finder; and Wave Keyboard.
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