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STD dating site PositiveSingles.com faces $16.5 million fine for sharing user profiles

A California court has ordered SuccessfulMatch to pay 10,338,151 in damages. The court found that the sharing of profile information between niche dating sites gave off the false impression that his client was something quite a few somethings that he in fact was not. The judge dismissed a class action suit against the firm over similar claims, but a judge in April dismissed their claims, writing that they hadn’t specifically alleged that they had actually read the sign-up promises they had claimed were misleading before using PositiveSingles.”]

Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2014/11/06/std-dating-site-positivesingles-com-faces-16-5-million-fine-for-sharing-user-profiles/

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