Grindr is transmitting users' unique IDs, app name and precise locations to numerous ad tech companies, essentially broadcasting their sexual orientation to the entire consumer surveillance ecosystem.
story w/@aaronkrolik
nytimes.com/2020/01/13/bus… @AaronKrolik Meanwhile, Tinder is transmitting its users' gender to companies — along with the gender they are seeking are seeking to date/hookup with.
Read more in a new report today from Norwegian consumer group @Forbrukerradet @finnmyrstad
forbrukerradet.no/undersokelse/n…

1/ Google's $2.1 billion purchase of Fitbit represents much more than a hardware play for wearables, my colleague @satariano writes.
It is also a major digital health merger.
nytimes.com/2019/11/01/tec… @satariano 2/The deal advances Google's health push in part because researchers are already running a number of randomized clinical trials examining whether Fitbit may improve sleep, speed post-surgical recovery and increase activity for knee replacement patients. bit.ly/2JB9pf9

1/ The blistering report from the UK Information Commissioner's Office takes aim not just at Facebook + Cambridge Analytica. It indicts the entire consumer surveillance-and-influence ecosystem -- data brokers, credit reporting agencies, even universities bit.ly/2KOJ67V 2/ The report was based on the largest investigation of its kind by a data protection authority, involving more than 40 government investigators looking into 285 people of interest. I kept imagining the boards with red string linking all the various players under investigation:

1/ I've been thinking a lot lately about error-correction error. It's when creators are so enamored of the ideas, or tech platforms, they've developed that they make superficial fixes when systemic problems arise -- because they are blinded to fatal flaws. nyti.ms/2Gm6gzm 2/ But the error is trying to correct something that is itself a fundamental error.