Images of Tinder users posting their sexiest selfies were swept up in a massive grab of some 40,000 photos from the dating app.The photos were sucked up days ago by a dataset collector who plans to use the selfies in artificial intelligence training, reports TechCrunch. They were taken from Tinder users from the San Francisco Bay Area and include 20,000 photos of men and 20,000 of women.Tinder said in a statement that the photo sweeper violated the terms of our service and we are taking appropriate action and investigating further. Tinder did not detail what its doing.Though the photo scrape was confined this time to northern California, it serves as a reminder of the vulnerability of app posts, even those that may be embarrassingly intimate.Dataset creator Stuart Colianni who describes himself as a data science enthusiast on his Kaggle page has uploaded his Tinder Face Scraper method on GitHub so now anyone who can follow it can do exactly what he did. He touts it as a simple script that exploits the Tinder API [app programming interface] to allow a person to build a facial dataset. Other Tinder scrapers on GitHub have collected other data, such as the name, birthday, bio, number of photos and last sign in of users.
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