No More Tinder Swindler? Dating App Adds Background Checks
(Link): No More Tinder Swindler? Dating App Adds Background Checks
Mar 9, 2022
By Ariel Zilber
Tinder is partnering up with an app that offers online background checks so that users can research whether their dates have been convicted of violent crimes.
Match Group, Tinder’s parent company, announced the partnership with Garbo, the online platform that allows users to access public information including people’s arrests, convictions, and sex offender registry records.
Tinder users who log into the app’s safety center will be directed to Garbo, where they can input the name and phone number of their match.
Garbo will then provide information about possible arrests and convictions for certain violent crimes as well as sex offender registry status.
Tinder and other dating apps, including Bumble, have come under pressure to act after women reported being sexually assaulted by men they met through online platforms.
In September 2020, Match Group hired Tracey Breeden as vice president of safety and social advocacy whose portfolio includes other subsidiaries such as Hinge, Match, OKCupid, and PlentyofFish.
…In 2019, the news site ProPublica found that while Match Group, the Dallas-based firm that owns 45 online dating brands, screened for sexual predators on the Match site, it did not do so for Tinder, OKCupid, or PlentyofFish.
Match is an app for paid subscribers, while the other dating apps in the Match Group portfolio are free of charge.
In 2011, Carole Markin, an entertainment industry executive, filed a lawsuit against Match after she told police she was raped on the second date by a man she met on the site who was convicted of rape six times beforehand.
Match and Markin reached a settlement. The company also set up a screening process to vet users for sex crimes and criminal convictions.
Match Group has taken other measures to enhance user safety in light of reported assaults.
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