Petition Asks OkCupid To Implement Basic Privacy Protections on Site
In the wake of the Ashley Madison breach, Fight for the Future, a nonprofit aiming to “expand the Internet’s power for good,” announced Thursday it created a petition that asks dating site OkCupid to stop cutting corners and to implement…
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basic user privacy protections. OkCupid “doesn’t use basic HTTPS encryption to protect user privacy, so everything you do on the site can be seen by anyone who wants to spy on you,” the petition says, which includes every question a user has answered, even those questions that were answered privately, every message sent, and every profile a user visited. “Dating sites house some of our most personal and potentially embarrassing data,” such as sexual preferences and health, drug use and other illegal activity, and political and religious views, the petition said. Cutting corners on security isn’t just sloppy, it’s unsafe, it said. OkCupid didn’t comment.