Venntro guarantees to act after “critical privacy breaches”
A dating site provider that made users’ profiles visible on websites online containing explicit adult product has away by having a slap in the wrist today, after a Competition and areas Authority (CMA) investigation that discovered “critical privacy breaches”.
Venntro Media Group has over 55 million users across 3,500 web sites global. The CMA, which started its research in October 2017, discovered that users’ information ended up being been held in a main database that managed to make it easy for pages become noticeable on web web web sites that they had perhaps not opted too.
Senior Director George Lusty at CMA commented while exposing the findings: “We took action against Venntro because we had been worried people’s pages had been being added to web internet web sites without their knowledge or permission. ”
The CMA doesn’t have the charged capacity to levy fines beneath the Consumer Rights Act.
Binding Commitments
The CMA stated in a written report today: “Venntro has made legally binding commitments making it clear to individuals that it will probably share their info on other web sites and get their full agreement for this. Continue reading Dating Website Put pages on Adult Content Pages, Gets Slap (Adult industry dating)