The former head of privacy at LGBTQ+ dating and social networking app Grindr has accused the company of callously ignoring the app's storage and sharing of user data, including intimate photos and HIV status.
De Jesus alleges that the company fired him in January after he raised concerns about the company prioritizing"profit over privacy," per court documents. In the lawsuit, De Jesus claimed that a technical bug identified in the app allowed for user data including"billions" of nude photos to be stored—even after account deletion. De Jesus claimed that the bug would reset data consent settings, and alleged in the lawsuit that when top executives were alerted, they did not fix it at the time.
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