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Want your Grindr data? Show your ID and take a selfie!

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Identification & Authentication Want your Grindr data? Show your ID and take a selfie! Today, noyb filed a GDPR complaint against Grindr – a dating app for gay, bi, trans and queer people, where many users share very personal and even explicit sexual details. Instead of authenticating against the data that users have provided, like the email and password – Grindr requires users to identify in maybe the most grotesque way imaginable: Users have to hold up a piece of paper with their email address, as well as their passport – all while balancing their phone to take a selfie. This is not just absurd, but also a violation of the GDPR. Download: Complaint against Grindr (PDF) Exercising fundamental rights must be facilitated by companies. In this case, the complainant represented by noyb, is a Grindr user who was trying to understand more about how Grindr uses his data. Grindr surprisingly denied access to his personal data because the user did not send a selfie holding his passport and a p

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