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    Do you really want your personal info such as driver license number, the real date of birth shared with Grindr? Here is a good read. Five years ago Grindr was sold to a Chinese company. US Gov. forced Grindr to be sold to an American company. In the month of March 2020 Grindr was sold to San Vicente Acquisition Partners. On the surface, it appears that we no longer have to worry about the Chinese government collecting our private info but the truth is San Vicente Acquisition Partners was registered 3 days before the sell date. Who owns the group is not public. Reuters report at least one of the investors is Chinese.
    The Chinese gaming giant Beijing Kunlun has agreed to sell popular gay dating app Grindr for about $608 million, ending a tumultuous four years under Chinese ownership.

    Reuters reports that the Chinese company sold its 98% stake in Grindr to a U.S.-based company, San Vicente Acquisition Partners.

    The app, originally developed in Los Angeles, raised national security concerns after it was acquired by Beijing Kunlun in 2016 for $93 million. That ownership was later scrutinized by a U.S. government national security panel, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), which reportedly told the Beijing-based parent company that its ownership of Grindr constituted a national security threat.

    CFIUS expressed concern that data from the app’s some 27 million users could be used by the Chinese government. Last year, it was reported that while under Chinese ownership, Grindr allowed engineers in Beijing access to the personal data of millions of U.S. users, including their private messages and HIV status.

    Beijing Kunlun had agreed to sell the unit by June.

    Little is known about San Vicente Acquisition, but a person with knowledge of the deal said that the company is made up of a group of investors that’s fully owned and controlled by Americans. Reuters said that one of those investors is James Lu, a former executive at Chinese search gian

    A spokesperson for Grindr declined to comment on the record.

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