Tinder, one of the most preferred friendship applications in the world, is on the agenda with a very striking development. Aaron DeVera, a member of New York’s cyber sexual assault task force, told reporters that they have detected more than 70,000 photos of Tinder users on a website known to be malicious. DeVera also said they found a text file on the site that contains 16,000 Tinder user IDs, estimated to be victims. The reason for collecting photos remains unclear, but experts worry that it may be used for illegal activities. The most positive scenario is that these photos may be used by a developer or company to train a face recognition technology. However, it is confusing that the photos collected belong only to women. More than 70,000 Tinder’s photos shared in a forum Speaking of this striking event, a Tinder official said it was strictly forbidden to use any photos or information belonging to users in the application by third parties. He described the situation as a data breach and promised to work for the removal of the data. In 2017, a researcher at Google’s subsidiary Kaggle created a hundred dataset by engraving 40,000 profile photos of Bay Area users to train a machine learning model. Therefore, it is not even sincere to encounter a similar situation. T We work hard to keep our members and their information safe, Bir said a Tinder spokesman. We identify and apply new considerations that make it difficult for malicious people to commit such a violation. ” It is not yet clear what kind of security measures the company will take in the particular event. Match Group, owner of Tinder and OkCupid, says that user data is shared with third-party providers in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act. The American company also states that sensitive information is not used for advertising purposes.
