Are Your Tinder Selfies Safe? Someone Just Harvested 40,000 For 'Research'

Your Tinder selfies may not be as secure as you believe. You might have uploaded your best photos to the dating site, but they could be used for almost any other purpose, without your permission, as highlighted in a TechCrunch report Friday. According to the report, a user of Kaggle, a Google-owned machine-learning platform, recently exploited flaws in Tinder's application programming interface (API) to download 40,000 selfies posted on Tinder – 20,000 of each sex. Stuart Colianni created a dataset called People of Tinder, which consists of six downloadable zip files of people's profile photos from Tinder. The zip files contain multiple photos from single users, which means there might be less than 40,000 Tinder users at stake here.