The operator of a dating site for people with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) faces paying out $16.5m (£10.4m) after losing a privacy case.
The owner of PositiveSingles was accused of sharing photos and profile details from its site with other dating services, despite promising a “confidential” service.
A jury found the Californian firm had broken local consumer laws.
It also decided the business was guilty of fraud, malice and oppression.
The case dates back to 2011 when an unnamed claimant sued the parent company – SuccessfulMatch – as part of a class action case.
SuccessfulMatch runs a number of niche dating sites and also manages an affiliate scheme for those wishing to set up sites of their own. It offers both software and databases containing details of “hundreds of thousands of profiles” registered to its existing services.
Court papers state, however, that the PositiveSingles site advertised itself as a “100% confidential and comfortable community” and stated: “We do not disclose, sell or rent any personally identifiable information to any third-party organisations.”
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