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.
Permissions per app via Exodus
Nb of installs
Archive Privacy policies
Find market analysis - Top 10
Privacy Policies
Partners/third parties
x-mode, safegraph, ...
Patents
List of Match Group patents: https://policies.tinder.com/intellectual-property/intl/en
Tinder Patents: @misc{Matchgroup2008,
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},
}
@misc{Matchgroup2019,
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/
References with databases
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
-->list of dating apps available on this wiki
- Wikidata https://wikidata.org
-->list of dating apps available on wikidata