Raw Dating App Location Data Breach Investigation

The data privacy lawyers at The Lyon Firm are investigating a potentially large data breach involving the personal information and private location data of Raw dating app users, according to reports out of TechCrunch. Contact our data breach attorneys if you are a Raw dating app user to discuss possible legal action and to learn more about your consumer rights. Free and confidential consultations.

What Raw Dating App Data was Exposed?

The alleged compromised personal data includes users’ display names, dates of birth, dating and sexual preferences and users’ locations. Some of the location data included rather accurate coordinates that concerned those investigating the matter.

Raw claims on its website and in its privacy policy that its app uses end-to-end encryption, a security feature that prevents anyone other than the user from accessing the data, but TechCrunch found no sign that the app uses end-to-end encryption. In fact, the personal data about its users was available to almost anyone. Raw eventually fixed the data exposure after TechCrunch contacted the company. When asked about the app security, company officials confirmed that the company had not performed a third-party security audit.

It is unknown how long the app compromised its users’ personal data. TechCrunch discovered the bug while testing the app with a new user account with dummy data. TechCrunch found that the app was pulling users profile data from the company’s servers, but the server was not protecting the returned data.

Raw has not disclosed how many users it has, but their app listing on the Google Play Store notes more than 500,000 Android downloads.

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Contact our data misuse lawyers to learn more about existing data privacy laws and to discuss whether or not a specific company is violating your privacy rights. We represent plaintiffs nationwide in a wide range of personal privacy litigation, and we have filed numerous data privacy class action lawsuits on behalf of clients in all fifty states.