Grindr Reportedly Sharing the HIV Status of Its Users With Other Companies According to Buzzfeed News, the dating app for gay men has been sharing the private information with Apptimize and Localytics, two companies that help to optimize apps. SINTEF, a Norwegian nonprofit and research organization, was the first to notice that users' HIV status was being shared. Antoine Pultier, a researcher at SINTEF, says that HIV information is bundled up and sent together with users' GPS data, phone ID and email. The HIV status is linked to all the other information. That’s the main issue. I think this is the incompetence of some developers that just send everything, including HIV status. Grindr then responded to the report, saying that the two companies help to make the app better and that the information is not sold elsewhere. Thousands of companies use these highly-regarded platforms. These are standard practices in the mobile app ecosystem. No Grindr user information is sold to third parties.