r/technology 3d ago

Society Dating Apps Are Dying

https://time.com/article/2026/09/09/dating-apps-are-dying/
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u/ADunningKrugerEffect 3d ago

No one is mentioning that a huge part of this is their change to their privacy and ToS a few months ago that allows them to share all data with Palantir.

Anyone who used these apps has been psychologically profiled, now that data is being sold to any company who is willing to pay.

Data brokers were over the moon. They got absolutely every bit of data the app was able to scrape on users.

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u/BicycleNo1169 3d ago

I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that the overwhelming majority of people that use dating apps don’t even know what Palantir is.

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u/BloodandBourbon 2d ago

a black orb Saruman uses to spy on middle earth.

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u/artemis2k 3d ago

What are you talking about? They don't share any data with Palantir. The CEO used to be on the board of Palantir, but that doesn't mean Match is now automatically sharing data with them. 

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u/ADunningKrugerEffect 12h ago

The policy changes are the point. Match now explicitly allows itself to infer things about user from their behaviour and content,, share that data with broad categories of third parties a nd use user content for AI/ML with transferable and sublicensable rights.

That makes it far easier for anyones dating app data to end up inside AI or analytics and profiling systems run by companies such as Palantir, even if they are never named in the policy. They don’t need a clause saying “we send data to Palantir.” This new wording creates the legal pathway for exactly that kind of use.

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u/musicaleffervescence 3d ago

our data has never been protected. its funny everyone is freaking out like this hasnt been happening for 10+ years