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Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing

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• Original Reporting: BleepingComputer
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Analyst Takeaway

"Norway’s Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Xandr, a Microsoft-owned advertising company, $9.6M (NOK 92 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. The data protection authority said this is the largest fine it has ever issued. “We issued such a high fine in this case because the breaches we identified were very serious,”..."

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Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing

Norway’s Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Xandr, a Microsoft-owned advertising company, $9.6M (NOK 92 million) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country.

The data protection authority said this is the largest fine it has ever issued.

“We issued such a high fine in this case because the breaches we identified were very serious,” said Line Coll, Director General of Datatilsynet.

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