A surveillance video provided clues about a dating app connection that recently turned into a frightening armed robbery at a hotel in Miami-Dade County, according to police.

A Miami man was arrested Tuesday after police said he paid a 14-year-old boy for sex after meeting him on Grindr.

Authorities arrested a 50-year-old Sweetwater man on Tuesday after they said he raped a teenage boy a decade ago after meeting him online and plying him with hard drugs, including methamphetamines.

A gay couple told police officers that they were expecting a new lover after connecting with a user on Grindr, a dating app mostly used by gay and bisexual men. A gunman showed up instead.

A pair of Miami men offered a man money for sex after messaging him on the app Grindr, but things did not go as planned after they met up and the pair wanted their money back — and used a toy gun to make their point, police said.

A marijuana dealer shot a Miami man he first met on Grindr because he failed to pay for 3 grams of marijuana, according to police.

A rights group says in a new report that security agencies and government officials across several countries in the Middle East and North Africa have been using social media platforms and mobile dating apps to crack down on LGBTQ people.

Norway’s data privacy watchdog fined gay dating app Grindr $7.16 million for sending sensitive personal data to hundreds of potential advertising partners without users’ consent.

When a religious publication used smartphone app data to deduce the sexual orientation of a high-ranking Roman Catholic official, it exposed a problem that goes far beyond a debate over church doctrine and priestly celibacy.