“It’s like walking into a room and saying: “I’ll share my information with ten people in this room, and that’s where it ends. And then, you find out it’s gone out to the whole world. That’s the difference here.”
This was Chaya Hanoomanjee speaking to Jordan Bloemen, co-host of technology podcast Hacked, about why 12,000 clients are holding Grindr to account for sharing users’ sensitive personal data with third, and maybe even fourth, parties without their knowledge or consent.
Chaya features in the show’s latest episode, titled ‘The Gayborhood’, in which she discusses the core of our clients’ claim against Grindr, what the term ‘special category data’ means in UK law, and why it is important that we continue to hold large technology companies like Grindr to account for the way they use and process our personal data.
“It’s the fear that creates the distress in our clients, and that’s not something they can really move on from, even four / five years later,” she says. “They don’t even know if the practice has stopped. They don’t know where the data has ended up. That’s the sort of transparency they are looking for from Grindr.”
You can listen to the latest episode of Hacked wherever you listen to your podcasts via this link.