Match Group settles US FTC claims it illegally shared OkCupid user data

Reuters03-30

March 30 (Reuters) - Match Group MTCH.O settled a U.S. Federal Trade Commission lawsuit accusing it of giving an outside company access to personal data of millions of OkCupid users including photos, demographic information and location information, a court filing shows.

The FTC said OkCupid users were never told their information would be shared in 2014 with Clarifai, a facial recognition technology company, contrary to OkCupid's privacy policies.

Monday's settlement in Dallas federal court prohibits Match from misrepresenting the privacy of user information, and requires the Dallas-based company to certify compliance. Match neither admitted nor denied wrongdoing.

(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

((jon.stempel@thomsonreuters.com ; +1 646 223 6317; Reuters Messaging: jon.stempel.thomsonreuters.com@reuters.net /))

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