Edwards previously helped a Norwegian consumer rights group bring a complaint against Grindr in 2020 that alleged that the gay hookup app violated European privacy laws by leaking users’ personal data. “When I first heard that this was happening, my mouth hit the floor,” Zach Edwards, the founder of the boutique analytics firm Victory Medium, told America. But some experts say the level of detail included in the story suggests that whoever provided the information has access to large datasets and methods of analysis that could have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars-or more.
Conference of Catholic Bishops has not revealed where it obtained the data used in its report. A Catholic publication that outed a high-ranking Catholic priest as gay and a regular user of the app Grindr and led to his resignation as the secretary general of the U.S.
