A recent lawsuit filed by Corwin Law, a Florida-based consumer advocacy group accuses Match Group, owners of Match.com and a variety of other online dating sites, of using deceptive business practices in order to promote known scams and convince customers to sign up for paid versions of accounts. This allegation brings up disturbing concerns about …
The popular LGBTQ dating app Grindr has recently ran into trouble with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law in two different cases. These incidences illustrate that the EU is dedicated to enforcing the GDPR for the protection of individual users. It also illustrates how organizations who run dating apps need to be …
Since its initial public offering in February of this year, Bumble has been one of the most talked-about stocks with many people picking it as a great option to invest in. Recently, the company disclosed its third-quarter financial results. The results were largely positive particularly for the self-branded app; however, investors reacted with concern, seemingly …
In a public letter to their shareholders, Match Group revealed their financial highlights and discussed what this means for their properties. Match Group is an Internet and technology company that owns 45 dating sites all over the world, including Match.com, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid and Tinder. The news seems to be good. Of course, we should consider …
Halloween is supposed to be a spooky time, but for a number of people on the Israeli dating site Atraf, the real nightmare didn’t unfold until their data was leaked two days later. On the 31st of October, the hacking group Black Shadow demanded $1 million (approximately 3.14 million Israeli Shekels) from the Israeli government. …
At a first glance, the dating site Denver Dating Company looks like a normal, respectable way to meet people. They pride themselves on being thorough and claim that this helps to protect their users from becoming romantically involved with anyone who’s married or on a sex offenders register which, they believe, happens 40% and 10% …
Like many things, scams fall in and out of fashion. A current trend is to scam people through dating apps, including Tinder and Bumble. A lot of people started signing up for sites at the start of the pandemic and there was a resulting boom in online romance scams – although the numbers had been …
Tinder and its parent company Match Group have recently had a lawsuit filed against them. The plaintiffs argue that app is practicing age-related discrimination and deliberately manipulates the site’s algorithm to favor people who have subscriptions. Whilst it is understandable that Tinder would want to offer paying users the best possible experience to incentivize others …
Those of you who have been following me for a while know that I wrote an article about a year ago about the Google Play Store ignoring fake reviews. It can still be found here. Back then I stated that while I was 100% sure similar behavior exists on the Apple App Store as well …
Online romance scams have been around for as long as online dating itself. People see an opportunity to exploit someone and promptly take it. But we’re now discovering that there’s a new type of online dating scam, specifically involving cryptocurrency. Various forms of cryptocurrency have been around for years. Tech bros, entrepreneurs and other people have …