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Grindr pays £26M to settle UK privacy class action

Dating app admits no liability over allegations that it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties

Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a UK class action alleging that it shared users' personal data, including information about their HIV status, with third parties.

Grindr is a location-based dating and social networking app primarily aimed at gay and bisexual men, transgender people, and the wider queer community.

According to Grindr's Form 8-K filing, the company will make two £13 million installments, due by December 31, 2026, and March 31, 2027.

The settlement includes no finding or admission of liability.

The claim was issued in England's High Court in April 2024by law firm Austen Hays and served on Grindr in April 2025. The claim drew on research published by SINTEF in 2018 concerning Grindr's sharing of user data with third-party analytics companies Localytics and...

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