Tinder Aims to Strengthen Verification with Video Selfies Dating apps have spent a lot of time in recent years taking steps to improve security. Many apps attempt this via a verification process, which typically involves the user submitting a photo. Tinder recently announced that efforts to verify users would expand from traditional selfie verification to …
Safety has been one of the most significant aspects in online dating for decades. Its importance is increasingly rising. While an online date is likely to be fine, there are many stories about people who experience sketchy situations or even become victims of a crime as a result of meeting someone online. Safety is important …
New Monetization Strategies Make Online Dating a Match for Investors Over the past two decades, dating apps have gone from something a bit taboo – with couples meeting on them fabricating stories of how they met to tell friends and relatives – to something viewed as a common experience. This transformation was made possible by …
Are Human-AI Relationships on the Horizon? Many of you may be familiar with the 2013 movie Her. This film features Joaquin Phoenix playing the role of a recently divorced man who falls in love with an AI-equipped technology. Fast forward a decade later and this technology seems all too possible. In fact, recent improvements to …
Man Steals Millions through Online Dating Scam; Sentenced to Prison A recent sentencing hearing in Boston federal court saw a Massachusetts man sentenced to four and a half years in prison for his role in coordinating an online dating scam that led to stealing over $8 million from hundreds of different victims. A look into …
AI is Changing How People Date Online We’ve all heard about ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) is changing the way that we function within society. Most recently, you’ve probably heard the news about a wide variety of uses for ChatGPT, an AI that creates text based on prompts. However, AI is quietly finding its …
Salus App Aims to Use Tech to Promote Child Online Safety While the world wide web provides people with many great opportunities, there are also many concerns when it comes to online safety. While there are many negative aspects of the internet that need to be addressed, one of the most critical involves the online …
Bumble Partners to Fight Against Sexual Abuse Online Many users of online dating apps have increasingly called on companies to be more transparent in their efforts to promote online safety. This has led many companies to unveil new features and initiatives aimed at helping users. A new partnership between Bumble and Panorama seeks to help …
Long Island Woman Searches for Love Online; Finds Scammer We often hear stories about people falling victim to online dating scams. Most people likely think it isn’t something that can happen to them. This was likely the case with a woman in Long Island recently. Unfortunately, searching for love online led her to a fraudster …
Romance Scammer Playbook Made Public When we think about online dating dangers, we typically envision romance scammers as singular individuals attempting to take advantage of someone’s trust. While this is certainly the case in some situations, most cases of internet fraud originate from romance scammer mills where dozens of people work to try to scam …