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Dating app privacy
What the apps collect, who they share it with, and how to give away less.
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Data Privacy in Dating Apps: What They Collect and How to Lock It Down
Dating apps hold more sensitive information about you than almost any other app on your phone: your face, your location, your sexuality, sometimes your health status and your private messages. Here is exactly what gets collected, where it goes, and the handful of settings that make the biggest difference.
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Bias and Fairness in Dating Apps: How Ranking Really Works
Dating apps rarely encode prejudice on purpose. They learn it from millions of swipes and then repeat it back at scale, faster and more efficiently than any individual could. Understanding that loop explains most of what feels unfair about modern dating apps.
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