How to Completely Remove Your Data From These Online Dating Platforms
Your dating profile contains a huge amount of sensitive information about you. It has details about your gender identity, sexual preferences, geolocation, photos, political and religious views, as well as biometric data from your profile verifications. In any other context, you would think it insane to hand over this amount of sensitive information to a digital platform without a clear understanding of their data handling policies. But we’ve been used to dating apps for a while now. They’re easy to download and set up, and accessible to anyone with a smartphone. And we’ve become complacent to any risks—so much so that most people have already forgotten how a data breach at the parent company Match Group compromised an undisclosed number of Tinder, Hinge, and OKCupid profiles just this January. Simply deleting the app from your smartphone doesn’t do anything; even deleting your profile through the in-app account settings only goes so far. I...
