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It's no secret that most apps collect your personal data. Names, birthdays, habits,

interests, and yes, your location at any given time. Once the data is in their hands,

companies have a lot of freedom when it comes to what they do with that information,

thanks to lacks privacy laws in the United States. In some cases, that lack of

regulation can have life-changing consequences. Earlier this month, a religious media outlet

claimed to have gotten its hands on personal location data belonging to a Catholic priest.

The organization then exposed this priest for apparently using the dating app Grindr.

Recode Sarah Morrison joins us now to tell us more.

Hey Sarah. Hey Adam. So Sarah, catch us up to speed. What exactly happened here?

So like you said, this Catholic news outlet called the pillar somehow obtained a set of location

data of devices, basically phones, which were using a dating app called Grindr, which

locators to the LGBT community. That data was so specific that they were able to track a

specific device. They looked at where it went, like locations it went to, and were able to

match it to a higher-ranking church official who had taken about celibacies, and then they

tried to get common from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, which was his employer.

He resigned. So we're looking at a story that very likely outed him and also caused

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