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Intimacy has
an interface.

A critical reader on dating, markets, and platform power.

Research project · 2026

Research ledger

Sources

Every corporate filing, investigation, study, policy document, book, and testimony cited across the thirty-one theses—kept in one cross-referenced index.

No.SourceTypeUsed inOpen
01"All this terror because of a photo": Digital targeting and its offline consequences for LGBT people in the Middle East and North Africa Human Rights Watch. (2023).HUMAN-RIGHTS REPORT28
02A consumer investigation into personalised pricing Mozilla Foundation & Consumers International. (2022).CONSUMER INVESTIGATION08
03A rejection mind-set: Choice overload in online dating Pronk, T. M., & Denissen, J. J. A. (2020).PEER-REVIEWED STUDY06
04Administrative fine to Grindr LLC Datatilsynet. (2021, December 13).REGULATORY DECISION18
05Alone together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other Turkle, S. (2011).LITIGATION / SCHOLARSHIP30
06Annual report (Form 10-K) for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 Match Group, Inc. (2026).CORPORATE FILING01 03 04 11
07Apps, arrests and abuse in Egypt, Lebanon and Iran ARTICLE 19. (2018).HUMAN-RIGHTS REPORT28
08Barómetro de la soledad no deseada en España 2024 Fundación ONCE & Fundación AXA. (2024).PUBLIC-HEALTH REPORT29
09Bumble Inc. announces first quarter 2025 results Bumble Inc. (2025, May 7).COMPANY EARNINGS RELEASE13
10Business overview Match Group, Inc. (2024).COMPANY STATEMENT04
11Cold intimacies: The making of emotional capitalism Illouz, E. (2007).PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP07
12Complaint against Grindr LLC, Region 21, Los Angeles National Labor Relations Board. (2024, November 1).LABOUR-BOARD COMPLAINT22
13Complaint for permanent injunction, civil penalties, and other relief against Match Group, Inc. Federal Trade Commission. (2019, September 25).REGULATORY COMPLAINT09
14Current report (Form 8-K), June 25, 2025 Bumble Inc. (2025).CORPORATE FILING13
15Dataclysm: Who we are when we think no one's looking Rudder, C. (2014).PLATFORM-DATA ANALYSIS26
16Dating apps: The uncertainty of marketised love Bandinelli, C., & Gandini, A. (2022).PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP07
17Datingapp deler sensitive helsedata SINTEF. (2018).TECHNICAL INVESTIGATION16
18Digital fairness — Fitness check on EU consumer law (Staff Working Document) European Commission. (2024).LEGISLATION / POLICY REVIEW31
19Disintermediating your friends: How online dating in the United States displaces other ways of meeting Rosenfeld, M. J., Thomas, R. J., & Hausen, S. (2019).PEER-REVIEWED STUDY27
20Divestment order, Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. (2019).GOVERNMENT ORDER17
21Fourth quarter and full year 2025 earnings release Match Group, Inc. (2026).CORPORATE FILING01 11
22Fourth quarter and full year 2025 results Grindr Inc. (2026, February 26).CORPORATE FILING15 14
23From loneliness to social connection: Charting a path to healthier societies World Health Organization. (2025).PUBLIC-HEALTH REPORT29
24Garbo launches background check platform to public and on Tinder Match Group. (2022, March 9).COMPANY PRESS RELEASE10
25Garcia v. Character Technologies, Inc. U.S. District Court, M.D. Florida (2024).LITIGATION / SCHOLARSHIP30
26Gendered racial exclusion among White internet daters Feliciano, C., Robnett, B., & Komaie, G. (2009).PEER-REVIEWED STUDY26
27Grindr is sharing the HIV status of its users with other companies Ghorayshi, A., & Ray, S. (2018, April 2).TECHNICAL INVESTIGATION16
28Grindr United-CWA issues statement in response to NLRB complaint against Grindr Communications Workers of America. (2024, November 4).UNION STATEMENT22
29I asked Tinder for my data Duportail, J. (2017, September 26).FIRST-PERSON INVESTIGATION21
30I found out my secret internal Tinder rating and now I wish I hadn't Carr, A. (2016, January 11).JOURNALISM / PATENT RECORD05
31Kim v. Tinder, Inc. U.S. District Court, C.D. California (2019).CONSUMER INVESTIGATION / COURT RECORD08
32L'amour sous algorithme Duportail, J. (2019).FIRST-PERSON INVESTIGATION21
33Lex [Mobile application] Rakowski, K. (2019).PLATFORM HISTORY25
34Match Group acquires 'Her' dating app for queer women Bloomberg. (2025, May 20).ACQUISITION REPORT12
35Match Group to pay $14 million to settle FTC charges over deceptive advertising and subscription practices [Press release] Federal Trade Commission. (2025, August 12).REGULATORY ACTION09
36Matching process system and method (U.S Rad, S., Carrico, T., Hoskins, R., Stone, K., & Badeen, J. (2017).JOURNALISM / PATENT RECORD05
37New lo-fi, text-based social app Lex, for queer women, raises $1.5 million Crook, J. (2020, July 16).TECHNOLOGY REPORTING25
38Our epidemic of loneliness and isolation Office of the U.S. Surgeon General. (2023).PUBLIC-HEALTH REPORT29
39Platform capitalism Srnicek, N. (2016).JOURNALISM / SCHOLARSHIP02
40Priest outed via Grindr app highlights rampant data tracking Bedoya, A., quoted in Associated Press. (2021, July 22).INVESTIGATIVE REPORT19
41Privacy at Perry Street Software Perry Street Software. (n.d.).COMPANY PRIVACY STATEMENT23
42Quarterly report (Form 10-Q), period ended June 30, 2025 Grindr Inc. (2025).CORPORATE FILING15
43Quarterly report (Form 10-Q), period ended September 30, 2025 Grindr Inc. (2025).CORPORATE FILING14
44Quarterly report for the period ended March 31, 2025 Bumble Inc. (2025).SEC FILING13
45Record fine in the Grindr case confirmed Datatilsynet. (2023, September 29).REGULATORY APPEAL DECISION18
46Removing the ethnicity filter is not fighting racism Henderson, T. (2020, June).REGULATORY SETTLEMENT / CRITICISM24 26
47Resolution on addictive design of online services and consumer protection European Parliament. (2023, December 12).LEGISLATION / POLICY REVIEW31
48Settlement with Online Buddies, Inc Office of the New York State Attorney General. (2019).REGULATORY SETTLEMENT / CRITICISM24
49The age of surveillance capitalism Zuboff, S. (2019).TACTICAL ARTWORK / INVESTIGATION20
50The dating app paradox [Audio podcast episode] Planet Money. (2024, February 13).JOURNALISM / SCHOLARSHIP02
51The dating brokers: An autopsy of online love Moll, J., & Tactical Tech. (2018).TACTICAL ARTWORK / INVESTIGATION20
52There are plenty of fish in the sea: The effects of choice overload and reversibility on online daters’ satisfaction with selected partners D’Angelo, J. D., & Toma, C. L. (2017).PEER-REVIEWED STUDY06
53Tinder lets known sex offenders use the app Flynn, H., Cousins, K., & Naismith Picciani, E. (2019, December 2).INVESTIGATIVE REPORT10
54Tinder subscriptions Tinder. (n.d.).PRODUCT DOCUMENTATION03
55What does the app want? A psychoanalytic interpretation of dating apps' libidinal economy Bandinelli, C., & Bandinelli, A. (2021).PEER-REVIEWED SCHOLARSHIP07
56Winning bidder for Grindr has ties to Chinese owner Roumeliotis, G., & Alper, A. (2020, June 2).GOVERNMENT ORDER17