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Inside Grindr, fears China wanted to access user data via HIV research
In leaked emails, Grindr's president wrote “We can’t let people say this is about ‘sharing user data with the Chinese government.’”
Just a few months after a Chinese gaming company acquired Grindr, a gay dating app, employees of the app learned that the Trump administration was investigating the deal over national security concerns, according to two people familiar with the company.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., an interagency group led by the Treasury Department that oversees foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies, began investigating Grindr as early as July 2018 because of concerns about the security of sensitive user data collected by the app, which included the HIV status of millions of gay people around the world, the sources said. Sources familiar with the situation say employees learned of the investigation from internal company documents and in a July 20, 2018 meeting with Grindr executives and representatives from a newly-hired public relations firm.
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Gay, HIV positive & a Grindr subscriber? Surprise! They may know a lot about you in Beijing & that's not to your advantage. With over 3 million subs, there is now national security concern about the Chinese using this data to compromise people in key positions in industry & government.
In leaked emails, Grindr's president wrote “We can’t let people say this is about ‘sharing user data with the Chinese government.’”
Just a few months after a Chinese gaming company acquired Grindr, a gay dating app, employees of the app learned that the Trump administration was investigating the deal over national security concerns, according to two people familiar with the company.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S., an interagency group led by the Treasury Department that oversees foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies, began investigating Grindr as early as July 2018 because of concerns about the security of sensitive user data collected by the app, which included the HIV status of millions of gay people around the world, the sources said. Sources familiar with the situation say employees learned of the investigation from internal company documents and in a July 20, 2018 meeting with Grindr executives and representatives from a newly-hired public relations firm.
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Gay, HIV positive & a Grindr subscriber? Surprise! They may know a lot about you in Beijing & that's not to your advantage. With over 3 million subs, there is now national security concern about the Chinese using this data to compromise people in key positions in industry & government.