Tinder introduces new function - and wants to uncover criminal pasts
Created: 03/10/2022 10:54 am
Tinder, a popular dating app, is launching a new feature in the US.
It is intended to protect against sexualized violence.
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Tinder wants to be safer: the dating app introduces a feature that uncovers users' criminal pasts.
Dallas/USA - Singles with security requirements should be happy about this function, because Tinder will be able to check the matches very carefully in the future.
In the USA, a data comparison should enable users to uncover a criminal past of the chosen ones.
The dating app offers two free searches through the provider Garbo, which allows users to access the US sex offenders index.
However, there is a catch.
Tinder lets US users check criminal pasts from others
Tinder parent company Match Group said Wednesday that Tinder users can search Garbo for arrests or convictions of their potential partners.
Garbo founder Kathryn Kosmides said Match Group's announcement is "just the first step in fulfilling our mission to proactively prevent harm in the digital age."
According to the Tinder parent company, the first two searches per user are free, and the offer is capped at a total of 500,000 searches.
According to this, a search should cost 2.50 dollars (equivalent to around 2.26 euros).
Dating app Tinder lets users access US sex offender files
On the Gabo platform, Tinder users can enter names, phone numbers and other details of their counterparts.
Search results that access the US sex offenders database filter out specific crimes, such as drug possession, loitering, or vagrancy.
The search engine also does not display personal details such as residential addresses and telephone numbers of registered offenders.
Tinder: Women report on sexualized violence
Tinder and other dating apps are repeatedly confronted with reports from women whose dates ended in sexualised violence.
Through the platforms, they get to know men who won't take no for granted.
Garbo aims to prevent such crimes.
However, experts point out that the US sex offender register does not allow definitive statements about the dangerousness of a person.
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Tinder introduces new function: After the panic button, Garbo follows
US sociologist Nicole Bedera explains that sexual offenses are often not reported by those affected and even fewer reports lead to a conviction.
Tinder reacted two years ago and introduced a so-called “panic button”.
In cooperation with Noonlight, an app that can mobilize rescue services, users should be protected from attacks, writes
focus.de
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When the button was pressed, the app sent a numerical code that had to be entered.
If that didn't happen, an SMS was sent.
When that wasn't answered either, Noonlight called.
If this also remained unheard, the police were alerted.
Tinder with new function: Garbo should prevent "part of the damage" for community
Rutgers School of Criminal Justice professor Sarah Lageson pointed to potential problems Garbo could bring.
Because in the USA structural racism still prevails in the justice system: "Many white sex offenders have no criminal record and many black people have a misleading or unjust one".
Garbo, on the other hand, explained that having more information before meeting a stranger could at least "prevent some of the harm to ourselves and our communities."
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