TECH CRUNCH – June 30 – Tinder has responded to a letter from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden calling for the company to seal up security loopholes in its app that could lead to blackmail and other privacy incursions. Match Group General Counsel Jared Sine described recent changes to the app, noting that as of June 19, "swipe data has been padded such that all actions are now the same size." Sine added that images on the mobile app are fully encrypted as of February 6, while images on the web version of Tinder were already encrypted. The Tinder issues were first called out in a report by a research team at Checkmarx describing the app's "disturbing vulnerabilities' and their propensity for blackmail.
by Taylor Hatmaker
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