Microsoft-Owned Ad Firm Hit With Norway’s Biggest-Ever Privacy Fine for Sharing Grindr Users’ Sexual Orientation Data

An advertising company now owned by Microsoft has been hit with Norway’s largest-ever privacy fine for passing along sensitive data from users of a dating app built for the LGBTQ+ community. The Norwegian Data Protection Authority says it has fined Xandr about $9.6 million for processing and sharing the personal data of Grindr users without a legal basis. Says Line Coll, director general of the regulator, “We issued such a high fine in this case because the breaches we identified were very serious.

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