Dating Sites Continue Creepy Privacy Invasions / Mining Tactics

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 09:51:20 PST 2017


https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/7lkt6j/okcupid_used_to_advise_against_sharing_your_real/
https://www.reddit.com/r/OkCupid/top/?sort=top&t=week
https://www.reddit.com/search?q=okcupid&t=week
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskWomen/comments/7lhhxk/what_are_your_thoughts_on_okcupid_switching_from/
https://www.reddit.com/r/polyamory/comments/7lf2n2/okcupid_is_dropping_usernames_for_real_names_2018/

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/IAC_(company)#Match_Group

A single creepy media company named IAC InterActiveCorp
owns many tens of topsites, spunoff yet controlled entities, etc.
In the dating arena, they've been trending towards socially
engineering (NLP) and forcing users to upload face photos, enforcing
only face photos through twisted user reporting / rating / cajoling
schemes, to submit and use real names / dob, report normal
awkward / misunderstood / casual / debative / alternative messages
and content as harassment, have swiss cheese TOS/AUP/Privacy
policies that are utterly repulsive to genuine privacy, engage in
nanny / sjw activities including staff inappropriately reading user
messages instead of empowering users to manage other users, etc.
And like Craigslist, these dating sites store, datamine, and
sell every single message, picture, profile content / changes,
and all metadata... forever.
Just like Facebook... companies forcing / tricking users into
dropping guard / sharing, opening themselves to abuse by
corp and others from public / online, and raping them for
profit when they're most vulnerable... in the social nets.

Huge potential for new paid / donation / cryptocurrency endowment
based (not "free" dataselling) online services that actually stand
for privacy.

Related conglomerations...
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet


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