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Grindr to disable location feature in Olympic Village
Grindr disables location and private video features inside the Milano-Cortina Olympic Village to protect a record 44 out LGBTQ+ athletes, providing free privacy tools during the Games.
- On Monday , Grindr announced in a company blog post that it will disable location features inside the Milano-Cortina Olympic Village during the 2026 Winter Olympics from February 6 to 22.
- Grindr said the restrictions respond to heightened safety concerns for athletes, warning that distance and location data can pinpoint exact locations inside the densely packed Village, creating risks for athletes who are not publicly out or from countries hostile to LGBTQ+ people.
- Major changes include disabling Explore/Roam and defaulting Show Distance to off for Village users, turning off private one-view videos, unlocking disappearing messages, unsend, screenshot blocking, weekly safety alerts, and reporting conversations up to 24 hours after they end.
- Grindr said the measures aim to give Olympic athletes greater privacy control while keeping the app available, protecting competitors from more than 60 countries where being queer is criminalized.
- This marks the third Olympics where Grindr implements these protections, after 2022 and 2024, following the 2016 Daily Beast article controversy and as a record 44 openly LGBTQ+ athletes attend, OutSports reports.
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