Lawsuits within the online dating industry seem to be fairly commonplace in recent years with a wide number of high-profile cases. One that is starting to gain more traction in terms of the press lies in a brand dispute between Muzmatch and Match Group. Set to go to trial in London later this month, this …
Match Group, the company that owns dating sites including Tinder, Match’s dating app, OKCupid, Hinge, PlentyOfFish, and others, has reached a settlement agreement in which it will pay Tinder founders a total of $441 million. This settlement is in response to a lawsuit against the company that it intentionally undervalued Tinder’s worth, leading to significantly …
We’ve all experienced the sensation. We match with a dating profile that is a bit too good to be true. Soon thereafter, the telltale signs appear of a fraudulent account. Unfortunately, many users don’t recognize these signs and end up being defrauded out of hard-earned money. With online dating scams increasing in occurrence and milking …
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 …
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 …