Your Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in GLBT-focused Location-based Dating Applications · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1604.08235/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTYour Neighbors Are My Spies: Location and other Privacy Concerns in GLBT-focused Location-based Dating Applications — mentioned by sbodyiused2nohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25649689urn:hackerpapers:mention:1604.08235:25649689Tue, 05 Jan 2021 19:16:13 GMT<p>This reminds me of a study done more than 5 years ago on this exact problem. https://www.wired.com/2016/05/grindr-promises-privacy-still-... Gay Dating Apps Promise Privacy, But Leak Your Exact Location Researchers in Kyoto demonstrate for WIRED how they can precisely track the locations of people using Grindr, Hornet, and Jack&#x27;d despite features meant to hide them. The mentioned research paper is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1604.08235.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1604.08235/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CY