Human Rights Watch documented in a 135-page report how security forces in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Tunisia create fake profiles to entrap users, producing prosecution, torture and extortion; a twenty-seven-year-old Egyptian man recounted recognising, in the police report, that the man he had met on Grindr was one of the officers. After the rainbow flag was raised at a Cairo concert in September 2017, more than seventy people were arrested, many through app entrapment. In March 2023, following reports of thirty-five to forty further arrests, Grindr pushed hourly warnings to every user in Egypt and worked with local advocacy groups, as it has through Grindr for Equality since 2015. The company that leaked HIV status is also the company that sends the warning, and both statements are true at once.