{"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\"> < 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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The president of Grindr switched internal communications onto WeChat, spoke only in Chinese and proposed putting an HIV research intern in the company\u2019s West Hollywood office, it has been claimed amid growing fears the gay hook-up app\u2019s 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":["post-20572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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}]}}