For more safety
Look into the criminal past: Tinder wants in the future, offer background checks
With the new feature, Tinder is to users from gender-based violence
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To protect people from violence on a Date, you want Tinder to offer in the future background checks. The User will then get information about previous violent crimes of the other.
Online Dating platforms are experiencing since the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, a Boom. In addition to a potential way out of the loneliness in Online Dating there is a danger inherent only in the past year, the developers of the hit App Tinder implemented already a panic Button to call in an emergency the police.
Now a dramatic new security feature to follow: As the parent company, Match Group announced, giving users the ability to have a background check your Dates to carry out. Tinder should do this year in the United States in the early, more Apps, the Match Group to follow.
For Germany, no such plans are known so far. Data protection law that is comparable to that would be exercise in this country would probably not be possible.
Tinder: in the Future, with a view to criminal records
The company’s Match Group, the multiple Dating Apps like Tinder, Hinge and Okcupid, has invested in the non-profit U.S. organization Garbo, who is campaigning against gender-based violence. In cooperation they wanted to protect users against violence: Using the full Name, your date, or the first name office phone number User can check in the future via Garbo, the criminal past of their counterparts, reported “The Verge”.
The Basis of this service is to be, among other things, records of arrests, convictions and restraining orders. These entries should be about violence, crime and abuse used drug offences or violations in road traffic are not a part of the background checks, as this would have a disproportionate impact on marginalized groups such as People of Color.
The Feature, however, should be subject to a charge: Tinder and the Non-Profit organization Garbo work, according to “The Verge” of a pricing model, with most of the users could carry out the function.
Sources: Match Group, “The Verge”
