Don’t share your location on dating apps: Experts found users’ coordinates with scary accuracy

Don’t share your location on dating apps: Experts found users’ coordinates with scary accuracy

MashableAsia·2024-04-10 12:00

In the evolving landscape of online dating, particularly within theLGBTQ+ community, the integration of geolocation features has raised substantial privacy concerns.

While revolutionizing the way we find companionship, dating apps harbor significant privacy risks, especially with geolocation features. Thus, an investigation by Alexey Bukhteyev at Check Point Research on popular LGTBQ+ dating apps has unveiled a stark reality: users' precise locations can be determined through trilateration, despite efforts to mask this data.

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