Privacy in online dating: does it matter?

Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Cryptography, Security and Privacy Pub Date : 2019-01-19 DOI:10.1145/3309074.3309085

Julia Ostheimer, S. Iqbal

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Abstract

More people are engaging in the online dating phenomenon nowadays. However, in most cases online dating applications require additional sensitive information such as a user's geographical location or sexual orientation. This situation raises concerns regarding users' privacy in the online dating environment. This article focuses on Tinder which is among the leading location-based real-time dating applications, especially in the Western society. This article analyses whether a user's privacy regarding the use of online dating applications such as Tinder matters or not. Hereby, the article distinguishes between social privacy - privacy related to other individuals - and institutional privacy - privacy related to organizations. This study shows that some users might perceive certain benefits of taking privacy very leniently. Although, collected personal information about users can be utilized to optimize the user experience of a service, users should consider possible future consequences when data is being collected about them. The issues such as little awareness of institutional privacy, unintentional disclosure of information, receiving unwanted, targeted advertising, knowing the users inside out, unsecured data retention, difficulties in accessing or manipulating personal information, and effects on users' existence through data gathering are very important to maintain any individual's privacy in an online environment and show that privacy in online dating applications matters.

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在线约会中的隐私:重要吗?

如今，越来越多的人参与到网上约会现象中来。然而，在大多数情况下，在线约会应用程序需要额外的敏感信息，如用户的地理位置或性取向。这种情况引发了人们对在线约会环境中用户隐私的担忧。这篇文章的重点是Tinder，这是一个领先的基于位置的实时约会应用程序，特别是在西方社会。本文分析了用户在使用Tinder等在线约会应用程序时的隐私是否重要。因此，该条区分了社会隐私(与其他个人有关的隐私)和机构隐私(与组织有关的隐私)。这项研究表明，一些用户可能会认为，非常宽松地保护隐私会带来某些好处。虽然收集的用户个人信息可用于优化服务的用户体验，但在收集有关用户的数据时，用户应考虑可能的未来后果。对机构隐私意识不足、无意披露信息、接收不需要的、有针对性的广告、了解用户、不安全的数据保留、访问或操纵个人信息的困难以及通过数据收集对用户存在的影响等问题，对于维护在线环境中的任何个人隐私都非常重要，并表明在线约会应用程序中的隐私很重要。

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