Judith Duportail is an independent journalist investigating the use of personal data by big companies and how tech mediates human intimacy.
The Times described her as "the French woman who took on Tinder." She is the author of L'amour sous algorithme (Love's algorithms, Goutte d'Or), an investigative book about Tinder. The day of the release, Tinder announced giving up their secret desirability rating of their users. She writes articles in French and English for The Guardian, Aeon, Les Inrocks, Néon, Grazia. She sometimes collaborates with digitally orientated NGOs such as Tactical Tech to provide investigative work. She also gives lectures and talks in French and English about how algorithms are influencing our freedom.
