More Than 250,000 People A Month Log Into Grindr In Parliament
House of Commons staff and visitors try to access Grindr an average of 250,000 times a month.
The data comes from a recent Freedom of Information request, which revealed a snapshot of the Internet traffic in Parliament over several months last year. In addition to sites visited, it also tracked users attempts to visit blocked web pages and apps such as Grindr, Tinder and porn sites.
In December of last year, more than 1,000 attempts were made to log on to the dating site Tinder. During the same month, Grindr received 272,000 hits.
Other apps like Swinging Heaven, Fab Swingers, YouPorn and Gaydar received hundreds of unique visits.
Users also made thousands of attempts to access sites that would help them dodge Parliament's firewall in order to visit the banned web pages.
In response to the FOI request, the House of Commons Information Rights and Information Security Service said: “The information below covers both Houses and all users of the parliamentary network e.g. MPs, Members of the House of Lords, their staff, staff of the House Administrations and non-parliamentary network users participating in parliamentary business. The data also includes users of the guest wi-fi service from May 2016.”
A Parliamentary spokesman explained: "All adult websites are blocked on Parliament’s computer network. The vast majority of ‘attempts’ to access them are not deliberate. The data shows ‘requests’ to access websites, not visits to them. Pop-up adverts make up a significant number of these ‘attempts’, which the computer user would not even have been aware of."
"There are 8,500 computers on the Parliamentary Network, which are used by MPs, Peers, their staff and staff of both Houses," he concluded. "This data also covers personal devices used when logged on to Parliament’s guest Wi-Fi.”
h/t: Mirror