GLOBENEWSWIRE - Oct 19 - Grindr in partnership with the MENA Organization for Services, Advocacy, Integration & Capacity (MOSAIC), released the results of a new survey report "The Regional Livelihood of GBTQ Using Grindr," which captures the experiences of gay, bi, trans and queer (GBTQ) Grindr users living in the Middle East and North Africa. 71% reported that their parents and/or relatives do not know at all about their sexual orientation. 13% of respondents said their parents and/or relatives know about their SOGI; however, only 6% said their family is supportive. 64% of respondents said they either did not know or are unsure of what their legal rights are within their own local community. View the full report.
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Grindr And MOSAIC Release Middle East And North Africa GBTQ Survey Report
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Fuckr Developer Backs Down In Fear Of Grindr Copyright Lawsuit
TORRENT FREAK - Oct 16 - The creator of controversial third-party Grindr app 'Fuckr' has withdrawn his opposition to a Grindr copyright complaint. Grindr filed a DMCA takedown notice with Github in September, stating that Fuckr infringes Grindr's intellectual property rights. However, after initially filing a counter-notice to have his software reinstated, Fuckr's creator has now backed away, fearing a prolonged copyright battle. Released back in 2015, the Fuckr desktop app provides controversial enhanced access to Grindr. Fuckr also gives Grindr users the ability to precisely locate hundreds of other users while revealing usually hidden information such as photos, HIV status, and even preferred sexual positions.
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Adultery Decriminalized In India
INDIA TIMES - Oct 2 - Buoyed by recent Supreme Court judgements that decriminalized adultery and consensual same sex relations, extramarital dating apps are now betting big on the India growth story. Extramarital dating app Gleeden, Grindr, and matchmaking app Wingman expect significant growth in the country. Gleeden already has ~340K users in the country, up from 120K last year. Its three biggest markets are Mumbai, New Delhi and Bengaluru with Mumbai alone having 85K users.
by Anumeha Chatuverdi
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Racism On Dating Apps
THE GUARDIAN - Sep 29 - Sinakhone Keodara is considering suing Grindr for racial discrimination after he received a three-word response on Grindr: "Asian, ew gross." "Over the years I've had some pretty harrowing experiences," says Keodara. "You run across these profiles that say 'no Asians' or 'I'm not attracted to Asians'. Seeing that all the time is grating; it affects your self-esteem." It's important that dating apps take a stand on intolerant behaviour. Bumble's Louise Troen acknowledges the problem, saying: "The online space is complicated, and people can say things they wouldn't say in a bar because of the potential ramifications." Earlier this month, Grindr announced a "zero-tolerance" policy on racism and discrimination, threatening to ban users who use racist language. The app is also considering the removal of options that allow users to filter potential dates by race.
by Chris Stokel-Walker
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Grindr Will Now Have To Sue Fuckr To Keep Controversial Tool Down
TORRENTFREAK - Sep 30 - Grindr recently filed a DMCA notice to have the allegedly-infringing Fuckr desktop application taken down from Github. The creator of Fuckr has contested Grindr's copyright claim, meaning that Grindr will now have to sue to stop it reappearing. Released back in 2015, the desktop application provides enhanced access to Grindr. However, the extra features offered by the software are controversial. It gives users the ability to precisely locate hundreds of Grindr users to an accuracy of just a few feet. In addition, Fuckr offers access to a trove of information about Grindr users not freely available, including photos, HIV status, and even their preferred sexual position. Early September, following an exposé by Queer Europe, Grindr decided to end Fuckr's party. The company filed a DMCA notice with Github, where the application's code was hosted. This resulted in Fuckr being taken down. But Grindr is still battling availability of the software.
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A third-party App Can Use Grindr To Expose Users' Exact Locations
ENGADGET - Sep 14 - According to a new investigation by Queer Europe, Grindr can still expose people's personal data through a third-party app called "Fuckr," which was released in 2015 and can locate up to 600 Grindr users within minutes. The free third party app is built on top of Grindr's private API, giving it access to the gay dating app's database. It uses a technique called "trilateration" to find users, allowing anyone with access to it a way to follow people around as they go about their day.
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Grindr Is Introducing Kindr To Fight Racism
GQ - Sep 11 - Grindr is launching its first anti-bullying initiative this month, called Kindr. The specifics around Kindr are still opaque but Landen Zumwalt, head of communications at Grindr, promises a concerted effort to better police the app's racism and harmful behavior. How users are reported and dealt with will become stronger.
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Grindr IPO Plans Shine Light On China LGBT Acceptance
BUSINESS TIMES - Sep 7 - Grindr is planning an IPO overseas. Grindr owner, Beijing Kunlun Technology, did not publicize where or when the IPO will take place. The LGBT community continues to thrive in China. Rela is one of the most popular social networking platforms that cater to the LGBT community in China. During its peak, the platform had ~5M registered users. Blued, the country's second-largest social network for the LGBT community claims to have 27M registered users. Based on the latest data, the Chinese LGBT population currently stands between 70M to 90M. The Chinese LGBT community has an annual purchasing power that stands at a massive $938B in 2017 alone.
by Vera Dee
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Grindr To Go Public
BBC - Aug 29 - Gay dating app Grindr is going to list its shares on international stock exchanges, under a plan submitted by its Chinese parent company Kunlun Group. Kunlun Group's board said that going public would "strengthen" Grindr's competitiveness and help the business continue to develop. The Chinese tech firm originally bought a 61.5% stake in 2016 from the company's US founders. It then took full control in January.
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Grindr Used To Sell Drugs
NBC NEWS - Aug 2 - "Today with Grindr, men can have sex and drugs delivered to their door instantly," said Phil McCabe, a social worker and president of the National Association of LGBT Addiction Professionals. Grindr has previously taken steps to address the buying, selling and promoting of drugs on its platform. However, those who use the app say it is still home to a robust market for illicit substances. The terms "parTy and play" and the acronym "PNP," which can be seen on Grindr and beyond, are used by some gay men to describe a sexual encounter while under the influence of drugs. Beyond code words, there's also a plethora of symbols and emojis that are used to indicate drugs. Grindr users discreetly reference crystal meth by putting a diamond emoji in their profile, and snowflake emojis are used to get the attention of those looking to purchase cocaine. According to data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1.4M people in the U.S. used methamphetamines in 2016, and gay men use the drug at double the rate of the general population. Under U.S. law, Grindr is not required to do anything when it comes to moderating drug-related content on its app. Like all websites and apps, the gay dating platform is protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
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Reasons Why L.A. Is The Perfect Market For Dating App Launches
L.A. BIZ - July 31 - LA has a vibrant startup culture and a rapidly-growing tech industry, as well as an enormous media market, strong universities, a deep pool of human capital, a massive tech-focused consumer market, no shortage of capital investment, and a much lower cost of living than competitors like the Bay Area and New York City. Dating is naturally a local activity, so to prove that a new product concept or dating app works, you don't necessarily need to go national at the outset. L.A. is home to many of the most successful dating apps ever launched, including Tinder, eHarmony, Grindr, and Spark Networks.
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Grindr To Host HIV/AIDS Policy Experts & Advocates At Its First HIV Data Privacy Summit
PR NEWSWIRE - July 30 - Grindr will be hosting its first-ever HIV Data Privacy Summit in Los Angeles this October. The summit will convene HIV/AIDS policy experts and LGBTQ+ community leaders to provide feedback on the recent changes made to Grindr's privacy policy and to develop a set of guiding principles that could be adopted industry-wide to ensure protection and transparency for social app users who self-disclose sexual health information. The full list of participants, official date and agenda will be announced in the weeks leading up to the October 2018 summit.
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Grindr Announces 'Kindr' Version To Be Released In Sep 2018
PINK NEWS - July 28 - Grindr has hinted at a new version of the app which will tackle the racism and bullying on the platform. The dating site tweeted a cryptic video with a voiceover discussing racism, which says: "When someone says something like I don't date black people, that's all black people, that's what I refer to as sexual racism." It also tweeted a link to a website called kindr.grindr.com, which currently only has the voiceover and the tagline: "It's time to play nice." The site's vague announcement comes just days after model and activist Munroe Bergdorf called on the company to address hate speech.
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Grindr Sets Up Office In Taiwan
E27 - July 18 - "Taiwan is the first nation in Asia to legalize gay marriage," said the Grindr's CTO Scott Chen Jun-yang, who will head Grindr's office in Taiwan. The company, which has 40M registered users worldwide, has just opened an office in the Xinyi Breeze Center. Chen is currently recruiting software engineers.
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Asian Man Is Bringing A Class Action Against Grindr For Allowing Racial Discrimination
THEGAYUK - July 10 - A man is planning to sue the gay dating app, Grindr, for racial discrimination and is looking for co-plaintiffs across the US's fifty states so that he can bring a class action. Sinakhone Keodara, the CEO and founder of the Asian Entertainment Television company says that Grindr allows "white gay men to write in their profiles 'no Asians', 'not interested in Asians' or 'I don't find Asians attractive'," which he says, leads to people feeling "offended, humiliated, degraded and dehumanised" by the app.
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Grindr Launches First HIV Test Locator In India
GYASTAR NEWS - June 29 - Grindr worked on the locator with LGBTI organization, Varta Trust and the Chennai-based not-for-profit Solidarity and Action Against the HIV Infection in India (SAATHII).
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Grindr's Publication 'INTO' Launches LA Production Studio For LGBTQ+ Creators
BILLBOARD - June 14 - INTO, dating app Grindr's digital publication, has opened up a production studio in Los Angeles' West Hollywood neighborhood, as part of a new initiative to provide LGBTQ+ content creators alternative route to mainstream publishing platforms. Videographers, advertisers, and other media companies can produce photos and videos. INTO will not charge the creators but reserves the right to publish the videos on its own site. That way, the publication can sell ad space on these videos.
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Grindr And Other Dating Apps Are Discussing Ways To Add STD Notifications
MASHABLE - May 31 - Grindr and other gay dating apps are exploring ways to add the ability for people who test positive for an STD to notify partners using the app. Jack Harrison-Quintana, director of Grindr for Equality said, "Grindr works very closely with Building Healthy Online Communities on several initiatives including STD related notifications." Grindr recently launched several features around HIV testing reminders and HIV status sharing. The app Adam4Adam already includes a link on its Health Resources page to "STD notification services for partners and tricks," which directs to InSpot.org. Daddyhunt plans to release a new version of its app this summer that will include an option to log the date of a user's last STD test, and receive testing reminders every three months. Daddyhunt's General Manager, Casey Crawford, said that it is also in preliminary discussions about including partner STD notification resources as part of an upcoming user interface redesign.
by Rachel Kraus
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Grindr Has A New Voice Message Feature
THEM.US - May 21 - Grindr's users will now be able to send voice messages to strangers. Grindr has said it will be an "easy and authentic way to connect and express yourself."
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Gay And Bisexual Teens Are Using Grindr To Find Friends And Relationships
PINKNEWS - May 21 - The study by Northwestern University, and published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, found that 50% of teenage boys aged 14 - 17 are using apps like Grindr to look for more than just sex. The research was carried out using online surveys completed by 200 sexually experienced teenage boys in the US. The study also concluded that teenage boys using apps Grindr and Scruff are more likely to access sexual health services, like HIV testing.
by Ella Braidwood
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