Tinder collects sensitive personal information when you create an account, including your sexual orientation, gender identity, photos, and date of birth, in addition to contact and login details.
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Sexual orientation and gender identity are categorized as special category data under GDPR, requiring explicit consent and heightened protection standards. Sharing this data with a platform and its potential partners carries material privacy risks.
Users share sensitive personal attributes including sexual orientation and gender identity with Tinder, which processes this data subject to its privacy policy and potentially shares it with affiliated entities. EU and UK users have specific rights regarding this category of data under GDPR and UK GDPR.
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"We collect information you give us when you use our Services, such as, by way of example only, when you set up your account, you provide your phone number, login name and password, date of birth, gender identity, sexual orientation, photos and a short description of yourself.Excerpt from Tinder's Terms of Use
REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: The collection of sexual orientation and gender identity data implicates GDPR Article 9, which classifies these as special categories of personal data requiring explicit consent as the lawful basis for processing.
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Sexual orientation and gender identity are categorized as special category data under GDPR, requiring explicit consent and heightened protection standards. Sharing this data with a platform and its potential partners carries material privacy risks.
Users share sensitive personal attributes including sexual orientation and gender identity with Tinder, which processes this data subject to its privacy policy and potentially shares it with affiliated entities. EU and UK users have specific rights regarding this category of data under GDPR and UK GDPR.
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