Shady Data Brokers Are Selling Online Dating Profiles by the Millions

guest · Nov 12, 2018

Shady Data Brokers Are Selling Online Dating Profiles by the Millions
Tactical Tech and artist Joana Moll bought one million dating profiles for $153
November 12, 2018
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...elling-online-dating-profiles-by-the-millions

If I’m signing up for a dating website, I usually just smash the “I agree” button on the site’s terms of service and jump right into uploading some of the most sensitive, private information about myself to the company’s servers [...]
Because I agreed to the legal jargon that gets me into the website, all of that data is up for sale—potentially through a sort of gray market for dating profiles.

Berlin-based NGO Tactical Tech collaborated with artist and researcher Joana Moll to uncover these practices in the online dating world. In a recent project titled “The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love,” the team set up an online “auction” to visualize how our lives are auctioned away by shady brokers.

She believes that we’re engaging in free, exploitative labor every day, and that companies are trading in our privacy. [...] “You can fight, but If you don’t know how and against what it’s hard to do it.”
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