The Journal reported that the data did not include details such as names or phone numbers. The data, which was acquired by clients of a mobile advertising company, allowed unknown third parties to learn sensitive information about users, such as who they were dating, where they lived and worked, and where they spent their free time. The company he told The Wall Street Journal which stopped sharing data with advertisers two years ago by cutting off the flow of any location information. Grindr, the popular gay dating app, sold data that tracked the precise movements of millions of its users starting in 2017, which could have led to the revelation of a high-ranking Catholic priest, according to a report.