Tinder Users Will Likely Cringe at the Data Kept About Them

If you use Tinder, you may be disturbed to find out just how much the dating app knows about you. 

Judith Duportail recently asked the company for access to the information it has on her, and, as she documents in the Guardian, she soon found out that information amounts to 800 pages of data. And not just any data, but some of her "deepest, darkest secrets," details about her "hopes, fears, sexual preferences," she writes.

"Tinder knows me so well. It knows the real, inglorious version of me who copy-pasted the same joke to match 567, 568, and 569; who exchanged compulsively with 16 different people simultaneously one New Year's Day, and then ghosted 16 of them." But it also knows things like her jobs and interests, details about her education, where she's been, and much more, including her entire Tinder dating history and pictures from accounts she's deleted.

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