Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet) · 13 December 2021
Grindr LLC
Insufficient legal basis for data processing
Fine€6,300,000Fine issued
- Regulator
- Norwegian Supervisory Authority (Datatilsynet)
- Decided
- 13 December 2021
- Country
- Norway
- Sector
- Media, Telecoms and Broadcasting
- Regulator’s reference
- Not recorded
- Fino case number
- 2021/NO/003
What happened
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority fined Grindr about €6,4 million (NOK 65 million) for not collecting users' valid consent for sharing data with third parties for profiling and advertising purposes from the Grindr App.
Summary from the GDPRhub page for this decision, written by its volunteers, not by Fino. CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Rules involved
- Art. 6Lawfulness of processing6(1)Read →
- Art. 9Processing of special categories of personal data9(1)Read →
- Special categories
- Unlawful processing
Sources
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