OsloNorway fined Microsoft’s Xandr €8.5 million over Grindr data.
Norway’s data protection authority rejected Xandr’s defence that Grindr had collected users’ consent.
In real-time bidding auctions, Xandr passed Grindr users’ data, which can reveal sexual orientation, to potentially thousands of firms in 2018-20.
The authority says thousands of people in Norway alone were affected.
How each outlet framed it
- netzpolitik.org leans critical
- frames the 8.5M-euro Xandr fine as joint liability of the app and ad-tech firm, citing the sexual-orientation signals in bid data as special-category data
Sources: netzpolitik.org