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Danish students publish OkCupid user data, DPA investigates
Two Danish students scraped and published data on 70,000 OkCupid users, including sensitive sexual preferences and religious views, without anonymisation. The dataset was removed after OkCupid filed a copyright notice. The Danish Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has launched an investigation into the incident.
- Date it happened
- 2016-05-01
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