A Catholic priest allegedly downloaded a popular gay dating app onto his smartphone years ago, perhaps assuming it would keep his secret.
This week, Monsignor Jeffrey Burrill stepped down from his job as top administrator for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops after a newsletter said it used his location data from the Grindr app to determine he was frequenting gay bars.
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"This is the first instance that I know of, of this data being used by a journalistic entity to track a specific person and weaponize their private, secretly collected information against them," said Bennett Cyphers, a staff technologist at the Electronic Frontier Foundation,a digital-rights organization."This is exactly the kind of privacy threat advocates have been describing for years."
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In January this year, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority said it would fine Grindr $11.7 million for sharing data without users' consent.
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