The user volunteers their health information into the public domain when they tell Grindr their HIV status. This is information that is already visible to other users to some degree.
Declaring your HIV status on Grindr is voluntarily and knowingly sharing your own health information into the public domain. It is much closer to tweeting it out than telling a medical professional imo.
Valid point; I hadn't considered it that way. There's still a large difference in audience between the two but ultimately you're surrendering the information to unknown parties.
Declaring your HIV status on Grindr is voluntarily and knowingly sharing your own health information into the public domain. It is much closer to tweeting it out than telling a medical professional imo.