{"id":20572,"date":"2019-04-03T20:19:49","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:19:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=20572"},"modified":"2019-04-03T20:19:49","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T20:19:49","slug":"revealed-grindr-president-switched-internal-communications-to-wechat-spoke-only-in-chinese-and-wanted-to-put-an-hiv-research-intern-in-west-hollywood-office-amid-fears-the-company-put-users-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/revealed-grindr-president-switched-internal-communications-to-wechat-spoke-only-in-chinese-and-wanted-to-put-an-hiv-research-intern-in-west-hollywood-office-amid-fears-the-company-put-users-da\/","title":{"rendered":"REVEALED: Grindr president &#8216;switched internal communications to WeChat, spoke only in Chinese and wanted to put an HIV research INTERN in West Hollywood office&#8217; amid fears the company put users&#8217; data at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2019\/04\/03\/15\/11811484-6881865-image-m-4_1554301951665.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Chen, the president of Grindr, switched company communications to WeChat and spoke in Chinese which stoked fears among employees that they could not protect user data\" \/><figcaption> <br><strong>Scott Chen, the president of Grindr, switched company communications to WeChat and spoke in Chinese which stoked fears among employees that they could not protect user data\u00a0<\/strong> <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> The president of Grindr switched internal communications onto WeChat, spoke only in Chinese and proposed putting an HIV research intern in the company&#8217;s West Hollywood office, it has been claimed amid growing fears the gay hook-up app&#8217;s millions of users were put at risk when it was bought by a Chinese company last year.  Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The president of Grindr switched internal communications onto WeChat, spoke only in Chinese and proposed putting an HIV research intern in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}