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Researchers: Popular gay dating apps are still leaking users’ location data

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Geekz Snow
Researchers: Popular gay dating apps are still leaking users’ location data

A handful of the most popular gay dating apps are exposing the precise location of their users.

In a demonstration for BBC, security researchers were able to generate a map of app users across London, revealing the precise location of each using a method called trilateration.

Apps like Grindr and Romeo are meant to expose some location data.

The hookup apps operate by allowing men to find potential partners within a certain radius of their location.

But the location data is meant to be an approximation, a radius in which the other user is located — much like listings on Airbnb.

Instead, researchers have found that by using a process called trilateration, they can find users with pinpoint accuracy.

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