New Website Lets Anyone Spy on Tinder Users (theguardian.com)

An anonymous reader cites an article on The Guardian: Tinder isn't as private as many of its users think, and a new website which aims to exploit that is causing concern among users of the dating app Swipebuster promises to let Tinder users find out whether people they know have an account on the dating app, and even stalk them down to their last known location. The website charges $4.99 to let someone see whether the target is using Tinder, and can narrow down results by first name, age, gender and location. But it doesn't do so by hacking into Tinder, or even by "scraping" the app manually. Instead, it searches the database using Tinder's official API, which is intended for use by third-party developers who want to write software that plugs in with the site. All the information that it can reveal is considered public by the company, and revealed through the API with few safeguards.

Comments

Tinder?

[sims 2]

Is that a new amazon app for their line of fire products?

Anybody who uses a Facebook product is an idiot

[Anonymous Coward]

By using anything on Facebook, you are making the conscious decision to not give a hoot about your privacy.

Acting surprised when the biggest online privacy-violation-platform does what it has set out to do is ridiculous.

Re:Tinder is not a dating app.

[rmdingler]

FD: I have never used Tinder, outside of a Bear Grylls situation.

My 20ish son has used it to entice girls to his apt for some Netflix and chill multiple times with crafty lines like, "Do you like what you see?"

I swear it used to be more difficult than that.