Phone tracking grows with COVID-19. Scruff wants out of it - Protocol
▻https://www.protocol.com/scruff-rejects-selling-location-data
Phone tracking is having a moment, but gay dating app Scruff wants no part of it Location data is big business, and is now at the center of efforts to study the spread of COVID-19. But who’s in control ? A few years ago, a particular type of email began showing up in the inbox of Eric Silverberg, whose gay dating app, Scruff, allows members to search for potential matches who are nearby. They were pitches from location-data brokers, telling the CEO he was sitting on a lucrative trove of (...)
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