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US officials order Chinese company to sell gay dating app Grindr

Officials worry that the Chinese company will have 'no choice but to share information' on Grindr users if Chinese authorities demanded it do so, the WSJ reported. – AFP pic, March 28, 2019.

A CHINESE firm has been ordered by American national security officials to sell popular gay dating app Grindr, The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday. The officials fear that people with security clearances who use the app could be blackmailed by Beijing, the newspaper reported, citing unnamed sources.

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