Dating Apps Share Photos With AI Vendors

OkCupid allegedly passed three million user photos to an AI company without clear disclosure or opt‑out, and has now settled an FTC enforcement action that bars misrepresentations about data collection and user choices. This shows how dating apps can become suppliers of identity‑linked training data for image‑analysis vendors, often under privacy policies that users do not read or that are cryptic. — Highlights a growing privacy and consent problem where sensitive, intimate platform imagery is repurposed into AI training sets with weak user notice or control, raising regulatory, legal, and reputational stakes for platforms and vendors.