Grindr to be fined almost €10M over GDPR complaint
> Grindr is now relying on a new consent system and alleged "legitimate interest" to use data without user consent. This is in conflict with the decision of the Norwegian DPA, as it explicitly held that "any extensive disclosure ... for marketing purposes should be based on the data subject’s consent".<p>This "legitimate interest" shenanigans is coming up more and more often, where you have a modal with lots of options to opt in to specific forms of tracking which. Most of those are now off by default, as it should be, except that if you scroll down you still see a number of "legitimate interest" ones enabled, even though you <i>can</i> turn them off manually.<p>Edit: And worst of all is this <i>very</i> confusing pattern with two columns of toggle buttons, one of which concerns "legitimate interest": <a href="https://toot.cafe/@peter/105367185171860458" rel="nofollow">https://toot.cafe/@peter/105367185171860458</a>