A Prominent Priest Was Outed for Using Grindr. Experts Say It’s a Warning Sign.

“There’s an entire multi-hundred billion dollar industry of companies you’ve never heard of,” Professor Ari Ezra Waldman, director of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Information and Creativity (CLIC), tells Slate. “Their business model is collecting info from all corners of the internet and selling it to people so they can make general conclusions about a population and advertise to it. They say that information is non-identifiable. This is another example of how it’s an utter lie.”