Privacy

When a threat actor steals your data from a company they're obligated to tell you. When a company sells your data, you find out like this.

I haven't used OKC in over 10 years. Am I affected? Is it new accounts? Wtf.

Yeah, that's pretty sketchy. It's not just that they didn't consent, but that it's questionable that they were even acting in OkCupid's interests, which they are supposed to be doing.

In September 2014, the CEO of Clarifai, Inc. e-mailed one of OkCupid’s founders requesting that Humor Rainbow give Clarifai, Inc. (i.e., the Data Recipient) access to large datasets of OkCupid photos. Despite not having any business relationship with Humor Rainbow, the Data Recipient sought Humor Rainbow’s assistance because each of OkCupid’s founders, including Humor Rainbow’s President and Match Group, LLC’s CEO, were financially invested in the Data Recipient.

In response to this request, Humor Rainbow gave the Data Recipient access to nearly three million OkCupid user photos. Humor Rainbow’s President and Chief Technology Officer were directly involved in facilitating the data transfer. In addition to user photos, Humor Rainbow shared other personal data with the Data Recipient, including each user’s demographic and location information.

Humor Rainbow never executed a formal agreement or set forth restrictions governing the Data Recipient’s access to, or use of, the OkCupid user data. The Data Recipient did not pay for the data and never provided any services to Humor Rainbow or on behalf of OkCupid.

That is, that sounds like they were basically using substantial amounts of company assets to benefit themselves rather than the company that they were responsible to.

I want to see the world where all the data broker and seller types and companies are prosecuted and get hard punishments. Some need to be shut down, others restructured so they can't do it again, some CEOs probably need to be jailed

Just another reason why you don't provide online platforms with such pictures.

an incident from 2014

Jesus they fucked us a long time ago

Again, another reason not to trust financial companies with our information. Somewhat similarly, in the UK restaurants are given food hygiene rating out of 5, updated frequently. You know where it's safer to eat. We desperately need the same structured system for online providers that hold information.

OkCupid, which was purchased by Match.com in 2011

Ah, that explains why they went to shit

I guess similar goes with all AI gpt chats even if you delete or tick box not to improve models. I think they profile everything and connect to your virtual persona which creates amazing source of knowledge how to sell shit to you via ads. Or eventually enforce some sort of thought police. Terms and conditions do not apply to big american tech if government interests are involved

DOGE and Big Balls have this one covered.

The FTC said the data-sharing violated the OkCupid privacy policy,
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OkCupid spokesperson said in a statement provided to Ars today. “The alleged conduct at issue does not reflect how OkCupid operates today. Over the years, we have further strengthened our privacy practices and data governance to ensure we meet the expectations of our users.”

Translation: we updated our privacy policy to indicate that we can sell our user's data to third parties, so now we can fuck our users without breaking laws

there goes your photos for making AI porn, gg

Well, I guess it's good they deleted my account.

I was pretty pissed after all the work I had put into my account, only to find they purged old inactive accounts after some years.

Now I'm less pissed...

And now they can facially recognize all the gays.

This will go well /s

Well, it's not like you put your face in there to be hidden. Your photos are explicitely public. They just sold them an easier way for collecting the pics, but a simple scraper would have collected (and probably many are right now) the images.