The American Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has announced the resignation of a senior administrator after he found "links to gay apps and bars." On July 20, it was announced that Jeffrey Burrill had resigned as Secretary-General due to "possible misconduct".

The Pillar reported that the priest's phone "had data indicating that he had used the Grindr app (" dating "app for gay, transgender, queer, etc.) during 2018, 2019, 2020 - almost every day at the USCCB office and residence .

The pillar reported that the priest's phone had als of application data signals from the Grindr location-based application on a daily basis during parts of 2018, 2019 and 2020 - at its USCCB office and its USCCB-owned residence. 

No charges have been filed against him for legal violations, but nonetheless, the Catholic Church still sees homosexuality as a "sin." The incident has raised some moral questions about the data that can be found through Grindr applications.

The Washington Post noted that Grindr includes information such as age, gender and ID. As a result, experts can extract this data, leading to incidents like this.

most information is usually stripped in apps like Grindr, but they can contain everything, from age, gender, and ID. As a result, experts can extrapolate this data, leading to incidents like this.

Others have questioned the ethics surrounding the initial news report about Mr. Burrill.

"What did this article do? It spied on Jeffrey Burril, to find out that, apparently, he had broken his promise to be single. The part I agree with is that the original article constantly mentions he even links homosexuality to pedophilia - although there is no evidence of that, all of which is what a "investigative" journalist says, someone replies against The Pillar.

The magazine has not yet commented on how this information was discovered. 

Source: Unilad