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Max Krohn

Max Krohn

OkCupid co-founder and Corazon Capital co-founder

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Federal Trade Commission settles with Match Group over OkCupid's secret data pipeline to a facial recognition firm

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Named in FTC complaint as having personally facilitated the data transfer

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. 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 3 hours ago