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Someone please explain, leaving aside the sharing of data side of this for a minute, why does a dating app ask the client to register it's HIV status and even if they did who would be mad enough to do it?
Someone please explain, leaving aside the sharing of data side of this for a minute, why does a dating app ask the client to register it's HIV status and even if they did who would be mad enough to do it?
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The app is used for casual sex, and in big cities like London there was over the last few years been a sharp increase in new HIV infections. Fortunately that has dropped dramatically in the last year:
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Apps like grindr started working with health centres like the one on Dean St to advertise testing facilities and putting a profile feature on which stated how recently you had been tested. The idea was that if you didn't, people would be less likely to respond to you (as you'd be less "safe" a bet than someone who did put up their status) and thus there'd be an incentive to get tested regularly, use contraception, and make sure that you posted it, as you'd be more likely to get a shag.
So, that's why the feature was introduced and that's why people put it up.
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Apps like grindr started working with health centres like the one on Dean St to advertise testing facilities and putting a profile feature on which stated how recently you had been tested. The idea was that if you didn't, people would be less likely to respond to you (as you'd be less "safe" a bet than someone who did put up their status) and thus there'd be an incentive to get tested regularly, use contraception, and make sure that you posted it, as you'd be more likely to get a shag.
So, that's why the feature was introduced and that's why people put it up.
It could be so the dating site does not get sued.
If you found a partner on that dating site and got HIV you could sue the company.
By asking people to declare their HIV status (even if they lie) the company can say we did ask people but it is not our fault if they lie.
That way they are less likely to get sued.
If you found a partner on that dating site and got HIV you could sue the company.
By asking people to declare their HIV status (even if they lie) the company can say we did ask people but it is not our fault if they lie.
That way they are less likely to get sued.
//I see the reasoning from your post Krom but wouldnt it be better to promote the use of condoms? //
Yes, it would. Unfortunately about 2-3 years ago, HIV rates were rising so rapidly that people started taking an "any means necessary" approach. Plus just promoting condoms doesn't manage incentives - putting this feature on the app meant that being safer (and sharing that information, of course) actually increased your chances of getting what you wanted from it.
Yes, it would. Unfortunately about 2-3 years ago, HIV rates were rising so rapidly that people started taking an "any means necessary" approach. Plus just promoting condoms doesn't manage incentives - putting this feature on the app meant that being safer (and sharing that information, of course) actually increased your chances of getting what you wanted from it.
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I read that as “someone who put it up their status.”
Thought that was a euphemism!
Do people really use an app to meet someone just to get sex?
What a revolting, immoral and squalid thing to do.
Surely this is the quickest way to pick up some horrible disease, or even find yourself in the clutches of a psycho axe murderer.
I read that as “someone who put it up their status.”
Thought that was a euphemism!
Do people really use an app to meet someone just to get sex?
What a revolting, immoral and squalid thing to do.
Surely this is the quickest way to pick up some horrible disease, or even find yourself in the clutches of a psycho axe murderer.
Spath - like many people you completely misunderstand Data Protection.
Unless the new GDPR is very different from what has been proposed, there will be no sanctions/fines for Grindr :
** as long as they have told people in advance that they will release this information **
In essence, the GDPR won't say "You can't release data" - what it will say is "You must tell people what you are going to do with their data, and not do anything else".
So as long people know what's happening, they can't complain.
[ apologies for the broad brush approach needed when reducing many hundreds of pages of legislation to a few lines ]
Unless the new GDPR is very different from what has been proposed, there will be no sanctions/fines for Grindr :
** as long as they have told people in advance that they will release this information **
In essence, the GDPR won't say "You can't release data" - what it will say is "You must tell people what you are going to do with their data, and not do anything else".
So as long people know what's happening, they can't complain.
[ apologies for the broad brush approach needed when reducing many hundreds of pages of legislation to a few lines ]
Quite so, Kromo - I should have addressed the OP as well as correcting Spath.
Sex is good fun - as long as it hurts no-one (be they participants or other parties) - having an App to ensure that the parties involved are both consenting is simply a 21st century shortcut to a situation that has existed since time began.
I have no problem with Grindr releasing the HiV data either - as long as people knew it would be made available.
Sex is good fun - as long as it hurts no-one (be they participants or other parties) - having an App to ensure that the parties involved are both consenting is simply a 21st century shortcut to a situation that has existed since time began.
I have no problem with Grindr releasing the HiV data either - as long as people knew it would be made available.
I’m not going to apologise for being repulsed by two total strangers meeting up to just have sex.
You may approve of that sort of thing, but I’m equally as entitled to disapprove.
It may not be anybody’s business, but if a discussion is started and I want to comment, then I will.
Tarquin went to the pre-arranged meeting place - behind the skip next to the sewage works.
The man didn’t look as hunky as his picture on the app.
“Are you Quentin” he asked.
“Yes” the man replied.
“O.K. Which one of us is going to take it up the gary, then?”
And there’s me thinking romance was dead!
You may approve of that sort of thing, but I’m equally as entitled to disapprove.
It may not be anybody’s business, but if a discussion is started and I want to comment, then I will.
Tarquin went to the pre-arranged meeting place - behind the skip next to the sewage works.
The man didn’t look as hunky as his picture on the app.
“Are you Quentin” he asked.
“Yes” the man replied.
“O.K. Which one of us is going to take it up the gary, then?”
And there’s me thinking romance was dead!
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