$10 million fine was issued, might seem remote to the millions of Grindr users across the Americas. That criticism led to a court case and, ultimately, a massive fine. Grindr is now active in nearly every country in the world and has millions of users.īut with success comes scrutiny, and Grindr has been facing a lot of criticism of late, particularly over how it uses the data of those millions of users. Today, it’s much more than the hook-up app that caught the headlines with its release over a decade ago.
It’s a global success story born from a simple idea – connecting gay men through GPS. Grindr is probably the world’s best-known social networking app for LGBTI people.
