Dating sites Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users' locations to within two meters.
techcrunch.com/2024/07/31/bumble-and-hinge-allowed-stalkers-to-pinpoint-users-locations-down-to-2-meters-researchers-say/
They were among a long list of sites with similar problems, allowing malicious users to very precisely triangulate the locations of others.
This has since been fixed, with most sites diluting the precision down to 1km, though Grindr still lets you track people to within 100m. Because I guess being stalked like prey is a kink.
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