‘Confidential’ STD Dating Site Shared Profiles

PositiveSingles, a dating site for people with sexually transmitted diseases, provided photos and personal details from its site to other dating services, despite promising a "confidential" service.

In 2011, an unnamed claimant sued the parent company - SuccessfulMatch - as part of a class action case.

SuccessfulMatch runs other dating sites and offers software and databases containing details of hundreds of thousands of profiles registered to its existing services.

Court filings highlighted that examples of other sites operated by SuccessfulMatch include AIDSDate, Herpesinmouth, ChristianSafeHaven, MeetBlackPOZ and PositivelyKinky.

"Plaintiff is... not black, gay, Christian or HIV positive and was unaware that defendant was creating websites that focused on such traits that would include his profile, thus indicating that he was all of these things and more," the claimant’s lawyers said.