Photos: Frank Sperling / KW, Berlin
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“The data collected, shared, traded and sold on dating apps’ users travels far and wide and could potentially be instrumentalized by third-parties for advertising and individualized pricing, but also to restrict your access to health insurance, credit, education and much more. We believe that exploiting this data is questionable because dating profiles might contain intimate and sensitive data on users which, if made public, might have dramatic effects on the user’s lives.”
JOANNA MOLL with Tactical Tech in The Dating Brokers: An autopsy of online love, a project for which the artist purchased 1 million online dating profiles for 136€ from USDate, a company that trades in dating profiles – and their very intimate contents.