Grindr's chief privacy officer on the dating app's data controversies

An interview with Grindr Chief Privacy Officer Kelly Peterson Miranda addresses a U.K. lawsuit alleging unauthorized sharing of HIV-related data, disputes past characterizations of data sharing as advertising-related, and explains that such data was limited to service providers; the discussion also challenges a Norwegian DPA fine and its GDPR Article 9 interpretation as discriminatory, denies that Grindr data definitively led to a 2022 high-profile outing, and outlines current privacy controls including data minimization, affirmative consent (where required), discontinuation of location sharing for ads, and limiting ad data to mobile ad IDs only with user consent.