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Daily Dashboard | Grindr users can have location tracked, even with adjusted settings Related reading: OMB to issue government-wide AI risk mitigation directive

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Researchers at Kyoto University have discovered a way to track the location of Grindr users, even if the app’s location settings are turned off, Wired reports. The researchers used trilateration to bypass Grindr’s location settings. Trilateration can determine a subject’s setting “by combining the distance measurement from three points surrounding them.” In a recently published paper on their findings, the researchers created two fake accounts, spoofing the GPS of the faux-profiles in a system called a colluding trilateration attack. While the location exploitation is a privacy violation for U.S. users, it’s even worse for individuals in less tolerant nations. “You can easily pinpoint and reveal a person,” says security researcher Nguyen Phong Hoang. “In the U.S. that’s not a problem [for some users,] but in Islamic countries or in Russia, it can be very serious that their information is leaked like that.”
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