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Explore a 40-minute Black Hat conference talk that systematically analyzes privacy risks in 15 location-based dating apps. Discover how these platforms expose sensitive personal data, both intentionally and through inadvertent API leaks that violate users' expectations about what information they're sharing. Learn about concerning findings, including how 6 apps enable pinpointing a user's exact location, creating physical safety risks. Understand how easy account creation combined with data exposures facilitates targeted or large-scale profiling and tracking of users. Despite privacy policies acknowledging data processing, significant privacy risks remain unaddressed. The presenters, Karel Dhondt and Victor Le Pochat from KU Leuven, recommend implementing user control, data minimization, and API hardening as essential countermeasures to protect user privacy on dating platforms.
