Matthew Zeiler

Rule Changes

Confirmed receiving OkCupid data in 2019 New York Times interview

In 2014, OkCupid quietly funneled nearly three million user photos, along with demographic and location data, to Clarifai, a facial recognition startup backed by OkCupid's own co-founders. Users never consented, and OkCupid's privacy policy said this wouldn't happen. When a New York Times article exposed the arrangement five years later, OkCupid publicly denied it.

Updated May 30