Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has fined Match Group’s Irish unit €11 million over privacy failures related to Tinder’s “Download My Data” feature. The regulator says the tool did not meet requirements for providing users with a complete copy of their personal data.
RTE reports the fine was issued to MTCH Technology Services Limited, Match Group’s Irish entity, following the watchdog’s assessment that Tinder users were not given the copy of their personal data they expected. IrishCentral similarly describes the penalty as “eye-watering” and focuses on the regulator’s finding that the “Download My Data” tool failed to satisfy certain privacy obligations.
The Next Web adds that the regulator concluded the tool omitted certain categories of information and reduced the overall scope of what users received. Across outlets, the shared focus is the same enforcement decision and the narrow point of failure: an incomplete response to data access requests through the Tinder tool.
