Because contrary to the assumption of many (including a Business Insider coworker or two), deleting the Tinder app off your phone doesn't mean you have deleted your account.Here's how you really delete all the online dating accounts you're sick of: To repeat: Deleting the app does not delete your account.Instead, it's part of a series of prank sites, the first two of which aimed at Google and Amazon, intended to make people think more about data in the age of internet behemoths.



Recent data breaches on Plentyof and e put hundreds of members’ personal info at risk.
Many dating sites’ terms of service allow them to share their users’ information with advertisers and partner sites.
We're investigating this site and will take appropriate action."Facebook's terms of service require those who want to collect data from its pages to apply for permission, which Cirio and Ludovic did not do when they pulled down publicly available profile information on a million Facebook users.
(They aren't the first to scrape a million Facebook profiles.)Cirio and Ludovic say they will take down a user's profile, if a person asks and the site doesn't have any indication they are actually trying to make any money.
And while many do meet “the one”—17% of people who married in the past year met their mate on the internet–they’re also facing serious privacy issues along the way.
One study found that one in ten members of online dating sites is a scammer.Anyone with an online dating account will know that choosing the perfect profile picture for your page is a tricky business.From candid photos to Snapchat selfies, it can be difficult to know what will help you bag the likes in a sea of profiles."But that's the very nature of Facebook and social media in general.If we start to play with the concepts of identity theft and dating, we should be able to unveil how fragile a virtual identity given to a proprietary platform can be."And, the duo speculate, if people pull hard enough on that bothersome thread, Facebook's billion valuation will unravel.If you're using Internet Explorer, and have specified an abnormally high level of paranoia for your browser, you may be able to remedy the situation by going to your Privacy settings under Internet Options, and selecting a privacy level of "Medium" for all sites, or just for this one.