Grindr executives at the time did not believe that the data-sharing would pose any risk to user privacy, according to the Journal.Īpp users often allow their locations to be detected in order to better match with potential dates who live nearby. Bob Roller/CNSīefore 2020, Grindr shared location-based data with ad networks who would tailor targeted ads that promoted “hyperlocal” businesses like restaurants, bars, or hotels. Last year, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, a Catholic priest, resigned after he was outed as a Grindr user by a Catholic news site. The Wisconsin-based priest’s alleged “activity” included attending a “gay bathhouse” in Vegas.
“Data app signals suggest he was at the same time engaged in serial and illicit sexual activity.”
“According to commercially available records of app signal data obtained by The Pillar, a mobile device correlated to Burrill emitted app data signals from the location-based hookup app Grindr on a near-daily basis during parts of 2018, 2019, and 2020 - at both his USCCB office and his USCCB-owned residence, as well as during USCCB meetings and events in other cities,” the Pillar reported. Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill, who was the top administrator for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, quit after a Catholic news site published a story detailing how he used Grindr and frequented gay bars. Last year, a senior Catholic priest resigned after he was outed as a user of Grindr thanks to the information which was circulated in ad networks. “Grindr does not share users’ precise location, we do not share user profile information, and we do not share even industry standard data like age or gender.” The dating app which numbers millions of users said it stopped the practice two years ago. “Since early 2020, Grindr has shared less information with ad partners than any of the big tech platforms and most of our competitors, restricting the information we share to IP address, advertising ID, and the basic information necessary to support ad delivery,” a Grindr spokesperson said. The Journal reported that the data did not include details such as names or phone numbers.
The data, which was purchased by clients of a mobile advertising company, allowed unknown third parties to know sensitive information about users, including whom they were dating, where they lived and worked, and where they spent their free time. The company awned The Wall Street Journal that it ceased sharing data with advertisers beginning two years ago by cutting off the flow of any location information.
Also a sketch comedian, he is best known for his 2010s SNL impressions of then-Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and then-vice president Joe Biden, which predicted the commander in chief's botched withdrawal from Afghanistan in 2021.Grindr, the popular gay dating app, sold data that tracked the precise movements of millions of its users beginning in 2017, which may have led to the outing of a senior Catholic priest, according to a report. Sudeikis reportedly did not condone the way in which Wilde was served custody. In 2013, she was featured in " Obamacare or Shut Up with Billy Eichner and Olivia Wilde," a sketch that touted the coverage benefits of the Affordable Care Act. Wilde, known best for her supporting role in season four of the television drama House, has occasionally ventured into political commentary herself. "She really believes that Israel has orchestrated a cabal to control U.S. "Her books are used by Stormfront and white anarchist groups to explain why the Jewish people are trying to take over," Riggleman told the Washington Free Beacon in 2018.
The campaign took a lewd turn in July when Cockburn without substantiation accused Riggleman of being "a devotee of Bigfoot erotica." A former journalist, Cockburn cowrote a book in the 1990s that peddled anti-Semitic canards. She is currently dating a man 10 years her junior who enjoys wearing dresses.Ĭockburn ran for Virginia's Fifth Congressional District in 2018, losing to Republican Denver Riggleman by a margin of 6 points. The 38-year-old split in November 2020 with her fiancé, Horrible Bosses star Jason Sudeikis, with whom she has two children. "This is for me?" Wilde asked after a woman slid her a manila envelope with the papers, which she glanced at before continuing her speech. Actress Olivia Wilde, the daughter of failed Democratic House candidate Leslie Cockburn, was served custody papers at a Las Vegas film convention as she was speaking on stage.