[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"branding":3,"analytics":7,"article-grindr-to-pay-26-million-over-uk-hiv-status-data-leak":10,"sections":35},{"siteName":4,"siteTagline":5,"publisherName":4,"contactEmail":6},"The Revision","Tech news, decoded.","editor@therevision.news",{"gaMeasurementId":8,"adsenseClientId":9},"G-ZW2MV82GYR","ca-pub-8533917693782264",{"article":11},{"id":12,"slug":13,"title":14,"dek":15,"body_md":16,"tags_json":17,"published_at":18,"created_at":19,"updated_at":20,"status":21,"review_note":22,"review_notes":23,"image_url":22,"persona_id":22,"persona_name":22,"section":24,"tags":25,"sources":30,"feedback":34,"feedback_at":22,"cost_usd":34,"total_tokens":34},6158,"grindr-to-pay-26-million-over-uk-hiv-status-data-leak","Grindr to pay £26 million over UK HIV status data leak","Grindr will pay UK users £26 million to settle claims it shared HIV status with third parties before 2020, without admitting wrongdoing.","Grindr is paying £26 million to settle claims it leaked users' HIV status to outside vendors.\n\nThe saga traces back to a 2018 investigation, first surfaced by BuzzFeed News and reported by Mashable, that found Grindr sharing sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties. Grindr said it would halt the practice almost immediately after that report ran. It took until April 2024 for UK law firm Austen Hays to sue on behalf of thousands of British users, arguing the sharing broke the country's privacy laws before 2020. By June 2025, more than 11,000 claimants had joined the case, and Grindr disclosed the settlement in a September 2, 2026 SEC filing, agreeing to pay £13.0 million by the end of this year and £13.0 million by March 2027.\n\nThe settlement carries no admission of wrongdoing, and Grindr is careful to note the conduct happened under former owner Kunlun, the Chinese conglomerate that sold the app in 2020 before it went public two years later. That framing lets current management treat this as inherited baggage rather than an ongoing risk, even as a £26 million bill and two years of litigation say otherwise. It is also a reminder that health status, arguably the most sensitive data category an app can hold, still leaked into third-party pipelines while regulators looked the other way.\n\nA company can change owners, go public, and rewrite its privacy policy, and the bill for what happened before still comes due.","[\"grindr\",\"privacy\",\"data leak\",\"settlement\"]","2026-09-07T17:31:36.000Z","2026-09-07T17:59:11.997Z","2026-09-07T17:59:23.902Z","published",null,[],"security",[26,27,28,29],"grindr","privacy","data leak","settlement",[31],{"name":32,"url":33},"Mashable","https:\u002F\u002Fmashable.com\u002Flife\u002Fgrindr-26-million-hiv-status-settlement",0,{"sections":36},[37,42,46,51,56,61,66,70,75,80,85,90,95,100],{"name":38,"slug":39,"count":40,"latest_published_at":41},"AI","ai",3415,"2026-09-07T18:24:32.000Z",{"name":43,"slug":24,"count":44,"latest_published_at":45},"Security",582,"2026-09-07T18:05:00.000Z",{"name":47,"slug":48,"count":49,"latest_published_at":50},"Policy","policy",313,"2026-09-07T15:41:19.000Z",{"name":52,"slug":53,"count":54,"latest_published_at":55},"Deals","deals",179,"2026-06-29T20:02:07.000Z",{"name":57,"slug":58,"count":59,"latest_published_at":60},"Hardware","hardware",152,"2026-09-03T09:26:48.000Z",{"name":62,"slug":63,"count":64,"latest_published_at":65},"Consumer Tech","consumer-tech",97,"2026-09-04T15:29:18.000Z",{"name":67,"slug":68,"count":64,"latest_published_at":69},"Science","science","2026-09-07T19:00:00.000Z",{"name":71,"slug":72,"count":73,"latest_published_at":74},"Software","software",73,"2026-08-18T07:51:50.000Z",{"name":76,"slug":77,"count":78,"latest_published_at":79},"Dev Tools","dev-tools",69,"2026-08-18T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":81,"slug":82,"count":83,"latest_published_at":84},"Startups","startups",54,"2026-09-04T23:36:14.000Z",{"name":86,"slug":87,"count":88,"latest_published_at":89},"Gaming","gaming",41,"2026-07-09T04:00:00.000Z",{"name":91,"slug":92,"count":93,"latest_published_at":94},"General","general",40,"2026-09-07T08:57:14.000Z",{"name":96,"slug":97,"count":98,"latest_published_at":99},"Reviews","reviews",20,"2026-06-24T12:00:01.000Z",{"name":101,"slug":102,"count":103,"latest_published_at":104},"How-To","how-to",6,"2026-06-16T09:00:00.000Z"]