id="article-body" class="row" section="article-body"> Grindr The gay dating app Grindr will no longer share its users' HIV status with third-party companies, the company announced late Monday.

The announcement, first reported by Axios, comes after a BuzzFeed News report published earlier that day described how the app includes sensitive health information along with a person's GPS data, phone ID and email, and sends it to Apptimize and Localytics, both companies that optimize apps.

Grindr Head of Security Bryce Case said the information was shared was part of a "standard industry practice for rolling out and debugging software.

"In this case, Grindr was using Localytics as an independent check to ensure that our own internal systems were properly recording when users made changes to their profiles. If the numbers in Localytics didn't match the numbers in Grindr's own systems, then our engineers would know that something wasn't working correctly," Case said.

Case added that