Tinder company fined €11m in Ireland over personal data requests
Ireland’s data protection regulator has fined Tinder’s operating company €11 million over its tool for users requesting copies of their personal data, and given it three months to comply with privacy rules.
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Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has fined MTCH Technology Services €11 million over how Tinder users could obtain copies of their personal data, and ordered the company to bring its data processing into line with privacy rules within three months.
The regulator found that Tinder’s data-download tool failed to provide some personal information, while other details were supplied only in summary form. Users were not told that some categories of data were missing, according to the commission’s findings reported by ANP.
The DPC also concluded that the personal data provided through the tool did not meet the requirements of privacy law. The fine was imposed on MTCH Technology Services, the company behind Tinder.
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