In the quiet moment of tapping 'accept' on a permissions screen, a transaction begins that most users never fully witness. The £26 million Grindr settlement — involving 12,000 British users whose most intimate data, including HIV status, was allegedly shared with advertisers without consent — has drawn back the curtain on an industry-wide practice of assembling detailed human profiles from both disclosed and inferred personal information. Europe has built laws to resist this, yet the fines levied against Google, Meta, and Apple, though measured in the billions, dissolve into days of corporate
Digital Data Leeches: How Tech Giants Profit From Your Secrets
LGBTQ+ users had intimate personal data, including HIV status, exposed to third parties without consent, creating privacy and potential discrimination risks.