Project:Dating Privacy

DESCRIPTION

Summary

Where https://epfl.meet.switch.ch/dating-data
When: First Wednesday of the month at 20h15

Objectives

1. Implement tools that allow users to request and analyse their data
2. Find and ask for SAR with a concrete example and cooperate with communities in order to 1 increase the impact 2 relay the info
3. Enrich the wiki with data structures extracted from the SARs
4. Develop methodologies that allow conducting research without dependency on commercial platforms
5. Formalize the working group and project with an official legal entity

Participants

Pidoux
Podehaye
Genferei
Frandrews

TO Do / On going

map the ecosystem. How many apps are available? Maybe be restricted to Europe.
Digital methods project "Mapping data ecologies of the dating industry" https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1n-p_efBmkK2v1KGCbHyHb_csmR6D7KN8SX3qron9Cn4/edit
Tools to sample how many apps are in the Google and Play stores "Google Play Store Scraper" is a simple tool to extract the details of individual apps, collect their related apps, retrieve app permissions, and retrieve a list of apps for a given keyword.
"iTunes App Store Scraper"
https://wiki.digitalmethods.net/Dmi/ToolDatabase

Permissions per app via Exodus
Nb of installs
Archive Privacy policies
Find market analysis - Top 10

Partners/third parties

x-mode, safegraph, ...

Patents

List of Match Group patents: https://policies.tinder.com/intellectual-property/intl/en
Tinder Patents:

  number={US20160154569 A1},
  author = {Rad, Sean and
            Carrico, Todd M. and
            Hoskins, Kenneth B and
            Stone, James C.},
  url = {https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/f2/c5/ca/2e0c06011ffaaa/US20140074824A1.pdf}, 
  title = {Matching Process System And Method}, 

  number={US9733811B2},
  author = {Carrico, Todd M. and
            Hoskins, Kenneth B and
            Rad, Sean and
            Stone, James C. and
            Badeen, Jonathan},
  url = {https://worldwide.espacenet.com/patent/search/family/050234419/publication/US10203854B2?q=pn\%3DUS10203854B2}, 
  title = {Matching Process System And Method}, 

Media

Tinder Elo Score: https://www.fastcompany.com/3054871/whats-your-tinder-score-inside-the-apps-internal-ranking-system
Irish Data Protection Commission: https://www.dataprotection.ie/en/data-protection-commission-launches-statutory-inquiry-mtch-technology-services-limited-tinder
Tinder and GDPR Paul-Olivier D. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/sep/27/tinder-data-privacy-tech-eu-general-data-protection-regulation
Match Group financial report: https://s22.q4cdn.com/279430125/files/doc_financials/2020/q1/MTCH-1Q-2020-Earnings-Release_Final.pdf
Gillette study on Tinder: https://web.archive.org/web/20150323010313/http://shavetest.com/
https://youtu.be/HSYaRgKYeek
https://www.esquire.com/style/grooming/a32478/women-on-tinder-dont-like-beards-020514/
Data privacy "Five Reasons You Should Delete Hinge" https://bit.ly/2J8mKOo
How the U.S. Military Buys Location Data from dating apps like Mingle https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqm5x/us-military-location-data-xmode-locate-x
Video integration on Hinge "Seeking a Partner for the End of the World" https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/style/cuffing-season.html
Fake profiles in online dating "Online-Dating: Auf diesen Portalen flirten Fake-Profile" https://www.verbraucherzentrale.de/wissen/digitale-welt/onlinedienste/onlinedating-auf-diesen-portalen-flirten-fakeprofile-21848
MENSTRUAPPS – How to turn your period into money (for others) https://chupadados.codingrights.org/en/menstruapps-como-transformar-sua-menstruacao-em-dinheiro-para-os-outros/

Surveys

Pew Research Center: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2020/02/06/the-virtues-and-downsides-of-online-dating/
Tinder usage statistics: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/tinder-statistics/\#2

Technical references

Technical report by mnemonic with the Norwegian consummer assoc showing data trading and GDPR compliance coded: https://fil.forbrukerradet.no/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/mnemonic-security-test-report-v1.0.pdf
Tinder engineering blog: https://medium.com/tinder-engineering/
TinVec explanation by Tinder's lead engineer: https://youtu.be/j2rfLFYYdfM
Happn by exodus: https://reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/en/reports/com.ftw_and_co.happn/latest/

Ressources

• Wiki https://wiki.personaldata.io
  

 -->list of dating apps available on this wiki

• Wikidata https://wikidata.org
  

-->list of dating apps available on wikidata

• Forum https://forum.personaldata.io
  
• Notes https://annuel2.framapad.org/p/dating-data-9kf7