Grindr to Pay £26M Over UK HIV Data-Sharing Claims
The settlement covers about 12,000 claimants and includes no admission of liability, with payouts of £2,167 each if split evenly.
- Grindr agreed to pay £26 million to settle a UK lawsuit brought by thousands of users who alleged the app shared sensitive personal data, including HIV status, with advertising companies.
- The settlement ends a two-year legal battle after Austen Hays filed a claim at the High Court of England and Wales in April 2024, alleging privacy law breaches occurring before 2020.
- Austen Hays represented 12,000 people who will receive an average compensation of £2,167 each, while the court determined Grindr's claim about not selling personal user information was "clearly misleading."
- Under the settlement, Grindr will pay £13 million by the end of this year and another £13 million by the end of March next year, though the agreement includes no admission of liability.
- Grindr previously faced a 65m Norwegian krone fine in Norway for similar violations and stated it has overhauled its privacy program since 2020, remaining "a safe space for users, committed to transparency, user control and responsible data practices.
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Grindr to pay millions over allegations it shared private data of thousands of UK users
Grindr has reached a settlement in a UK lawsuit filed in 2024 accusing the dating app of breaking UK privacy laws. It will pay plaintiffs £26 million (~$35 million) over allegations that Grindr shared app users’ sensitive information – including their ethnicity, sexual orientation, and in some cases, their HIV status – with third parties that sold it to advertisers. The agreement took place earlier this month and came to light when Grindr filed …
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