All articles tagged with "Online Safety"
Over half of Hinge's monthly active users are Gen Z, with many relying on AI tools to initiate basic romantic conversati…
France has passed legislation requiring all social media users, not just minors, to verify their identity through regula…
Facebook's new free verification system uses selfie checks to place white checkmarks on Dating, Marketplace and Groups p…
Tribal, an Australian dating app with 12,000 downloads, has launched AI-powered features, enhanced verification, and psy…
Romance scam losses reached $1.14 billion in 2023, marking a 15% year-on-year increase according to Federal Trade Commis…
Ofcom's first Online Safety Act review explicitly rejects age inference systems as inadequate for child protection, forc…
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced plans on 13 July for an EU-wide age verification app and po…
ODDA has granted associate partner status to Veriff, an Estonian identity verification provider processing over 12,500 d…
UK victims of romance scams lose between £10,000 and £15,000 on average per case, according to Action Fraud BioCatch rep…
UK dating platforms must submit risk assessment records to Ofcom by 31 July 2025 or face enforcement action under the On…
Goose, a new gay dating app, reached No. 4 in the US App Store's free lifestyle category within days of its invite-only …
Korean dating app APTING requires users to verify apartment ownership or residency before creating a profile, using elec…
MirrorMe charges up to R488 (£22) monthly for full access to its invite-only dating app in South Africa The app recorded…
Match Group spent $121M on trust and safety in the first nine months of 2024, whilst Bumble employs over 400 people on i…
Tinder revenue fell 5% year-over-year in Q3 2024 amid mounting user complaints about monetisation and match quality Matc…
More than 25% of fraudulent payment cases in Canada involve stolen credit cards and unauthorised charges—32% higher than…
Dating platforms must submit illegal content and children's risk assessments to Ofcom between April and July 2026 Catego…
Match Group has partnered with World, Sam Altman's biometric scanning company, to introduce iris-scanning verification f…
Americans lost $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025, an eightfold increase from previous years according to the Fe…
Match Group has built a $9 billion business on dating apps that psychiatrist Amir Levine argues exploit neurological thr…
19% of LGBTQ+ people have lost someone to drug-related death, according to Grindr-commissioned research 28% report havin…
Three studies in the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships found sexualised dating profile imagery consistently r…
EU child safety derogation expired 3 April, removing legal basis for platforms to scan for CSAM despite privacy rules Go…
Australia's eSafety Commissioner issued formal warnings to Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, and YouTube three mont…
Dating platforms have until summer 2026 to comply with new UK cyberflashing regulations or face fines based on global re…
Tinder has made video selfie facial verification compulsory for all new UK users, marking the dating industry's most agg…
Romance scams cost UK victims £92.6M in 2023, with over-50s disproportionately targeted 45% of over-50s cannot identify …
38% of happn's Dutch users may skip municipal elections according to internal polling of 1,097 members 62% of surveyed D…
Venntro Media Group collapsed in August 2024 despite generating approximately £40 million in annual revenue after 21 yea…
Meta now charges advertisers 2-5% 'location fees' on campaigns in the UK, France, Austria, Spain, Italy, and Türkiye to …
60% of trans dating app users receive intrusive questions about their gender identity within the first three messages Tr…
At least ten countries have enacted or are actively reviewing social media bans for under-16s, following Australia's Dec…
93% of Portuguese dating app users admit to ghosting matches, whilst 16% confess to lying on their profiles 57% of women…
Match Group is appointing Manuel Bronstein (former Roblox CPO) and Raina Moskowitz (CEO of The Knot Worldwide) to its bo…
X is rebuilding its search infrastructure from scratch after AI bot traffic overwhelmed legacy systems, according to Hea…
Snapchat has shut down or restricted 415,000 Australian teen accounts since the under-16 social media ban took effect Sn…
Swept dating app introduces in-app Date Planner tool allowing users to build, propose, and confirm date itineraries with…
Dating apps now account for 25.1% of marriages amongst Japanese couples aged 30 and under, the highest share amongst all…
Bluesky integrated Germ DM, a third-party encrypted messaging app, via profile badges in February 2026 rather than build…
Meta's Threads launched Dear Algo in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand on 11 February, allowing users to publicly r…
Single women in China faced a 74% higher suicide risk five days before Chinese Valentine's Day, whilst married women sho…
Snapchat's Home Safe feature recorded over 1 million activations in six months since July 2024 launch This represents ju…
Instagram is developing a feature allowing users to remove themselves from someone else's Close Friends list, the first …
Grindr will disable location-based features inside Olympic Village boundaries during Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games fr…
WhatsApp launched Strict Account Settings in late January, blocking photos and media from non-contacts globally The 2015…
Left Field secured £156,000 ($200,000) from Kendra Scott and Alexis Ohanian on Shark Tank for 8% equity plus 4% advisory…
European Commission investigating X over Grok AI chatbot generating thousands of sexually explicit deepfakes daily befor…
UK dating apps now operate at a 68:32 male-to-female ratio, with 3.6 million men competing for 1.7 million women Male us…
Snap Inc. rolled out expanded Family Center features on 22 January, providing parents with detailed breakdowns of teen a…
Tea exposed government IDs, selfie videos, private messages, and home addresses for over one million users in July data …
Meta removed 550,000 Australian accounts in the first week of enforcing the country's under-16 social media ban—330,639 …
Dating Options, a Warwickshire-based matchmaking firm, reported £2.19M in revenue for 2025 The company facilitated 2,222…
71% of singles say unemployment is not a dealbreaker when meeting someone new Over half of unemployed people feel anxiou…
WedKnott has secured investment from blockchain entrepreneur Pratik Gauri, founder of 5ire (reportedly valued at $1.5 bi…
Indonesia and Malaysia have blocked access to X's Grok AI chatbot over non-consensual sexualised images, including of mi…
TikTok has launched a printable weekly planner to help families discuss screen time, marking a shift from purely digital…
Grok was generating more than 6,700 sexually suggestive or non-consensual images per hour in early January—over 160,000 …
WedKnott, a matchmaking platform for high-earning Indian professionals, has secured undisclosed investment from blockcha…
UK dating platforms must now prevent cyberflashing proactively under the Online Safety Act, with penalties up to 10% of …
Dutch dating app Breeze has launched in the UK with a model that severely restricts pre-date messaging and pushes users …
TikTok removed 143 million videos for counterfeit-related violations between January and June 2024 Over 530,000 videos a…
SugarDaddyMeet has made photo verification mandatory, blocking unverified users from messaging, video, and voice feature…
GoodDate is a nonprofit dating platform registered as a 501(c)(3) organisation in the US, offering compatibility-based m…
UK romance fraud losses totalled £92.7M in the year to March 2024, with 8,141 reported cases according to Action Fraud R…
4.2 per cent of Londoners are widowed, representing approximately 340,000 individuals in the capital alone Terminal diag…
Snapchat will lock Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s from 10 December, the first major platform to act…
Pop the Balloon or Find Love episodes regularly attract between one and two million views on YouTube Dating apps typical…
Nearly 942,000 UK singles reportedly downplay achievements and interests in dating profiles due to fear of appearing arr…
82% of Gen Z and 87% of millennials already use AI to write dating messages and build profiles 62% of Gen Z and 70% of m…
Romance and confidence fraud resulted in $652M in reported losses to the FBI in 2023 Match Group introduced photo verifi…
Tinder has made video selfie verification mandatory for new users in eight markets including California, UK, Australia, …
Life360 claims 95% of American couples now use location-sharing technology, with 21% viewing refusal as a deal-breaker A…
Tinder's paying user base has stagnated at approximately 10M subscribers across Q2 and Q3 2024 despite continuous featur…
UN reports that organised crime groups operate hundreds of large-scale scam compounds across Southeast Asia holding tens…
Feels claims to have reached $10M in annual recurring revenue within six months of launch, with fewer than 12 people and…
Australia's mandatory Online Dating Code commenced 1 April, making it the first jurisdiction globally to enforce regulat…
Match Group issued a cease-and-desist to a British man who created a parody Tinder app featuring only his wife's profile…
The UK Online Safety Act allows Ofcom to fine dating platforms up to £18M or 10% of global revenue for serious breaches …
Approximately 10% of Ireland's population has red hair, creating an addressable market of roughly 500,000 people for Gin…
Sapphos, a Brazilian lesbian dating app, exposed 17,000 users' government IDs and verification selfies through a basic I…
Ofcom faces dating operators on 6 February at Global Dating Insights Conference to explain Online Safety Act compliance …
Romance fraud cost UK victims £92 million in 2023 according to Action Fraud figures Ofcom trial participants showed meas…
Global Dating Conference takes place in London 26-27 March, following merger of Global Dating Insights and Social Discov…
Nearly half of post-2023 relationships now start online, according to a new 50-country study examining 6,600 people App-…
Tinder's average revenue per paying user dropped 1% year-on-year for the third consecutive quarter in Q3 2024 45% of dat…
Bumble shares have fallen 83% from their 2021 peak, trading at $7.89 Monthly active users declined 4% year-on-year in Q3…
Garbo, the nonprofit background check service integrated across Match Group's dating platforms including Tinder, shut do…
18 of 24 popular dating apps scored D or F grades for data protection in new cybersecurity audit Match Group's average r…
Feeld recorded 179,885 users changing sexuality settings within a single year, representing roughly a quarter of all adj…
Fourplay Social has driven 500,000 downloads and facilitated over 750,000 connections since launching in 2020 Match Grou…
Global Dating Insights has extended nominations for its Women in Dating Special Report 2025 until 22 August, giving dati…
Pure reports 67% year-on-year subscription growth and claims a roughly equal gender split—a significant anomaly in a mar…
82% of American Gen Z and Millennial daters now use AI tools in their dating lives, rising to 87% among Gen Z singles 95…
Match Group's Sentinel system logged hundreds of sexual assault reports weekly by 2022, according to shareholder lawsuit…
Global Dating Insights' 2025 Women in Dating Special Report nominations run through 18 August, profiling female executiv…
10% of Britons now meet their partners through dating apps, according to Relate research Dating platforms typically run …
1.1 million private messages exposed in Tea dating app breach, including discussions of abortion, infidelity, and meetin…
UK dating apps must implement age verification via selfie videos or government ID from 25 July 2025 under Ofcom's Online…
Over 250 fraudulent dating applications have been used to harvest intimate photos and personal information from Android …
Nearly one in four American teenagers aged 16-17 used dating apps over a six-month period, three to four times higher th…
Roblox reported 88.9 million daily active users in Q4 2024, with users aged 13+ now representing the majority of engagem…
Greed Dating's facial verification system reportedly costs £0.80 per thousand users The system uses liveness detection v…
Walnut gates its core matching feature behind mandatory daily educational modules on emotional intelligence and attachme…
66% of dating app users don't trust platforms to protect them from fraud and dangerous individuals Trust deficit rises t…
Grindr has begun requiring all UK users to verify age through facial biometrics or government ID ahead of the UK Online …
Fewer than 1,000 users have signed up for Browser Dating since launch, an art project that matches people based on their…
Hinge is testing chat limits that force users to focus on existing conversations before starting new ones AI-powered 'Wa…
Grindr has launched Right Now globally, a feature allowing one-hour disappearing status updates for immediate availabili…
Meetline claims global coverage across 1,200 cities and 7,000 transit systems with route-based matching instead of proxi…
Tinder, Hinge, and Bumble generated a combined $311 million in April 2025, the highest monthly revenue on record for the…
Ofcom's 2024 Online Nation Report documents declining dating app usage as British users conclude engagement-maximising a…
75% of OkCupid users claim they always discuss boundaries before intimacy, rising to 82% amongst Gen Z 93% of respondent…
Tea has attracted over 500,000 users and generated $1.6M in annual recurring revenue in just over one year Americans rep…
Romance and dating fraud cost UK victims £92 million in 2023, making it one of the costliest fraud categories nationally…
Match Group is investing £1 million to fund Hinge users' real-world meetups in London pubs, cafés, and community centres…
Tinder's US market share has plummeted to just 25%, with Bumble close behind at 24% and Hinge at 18% Global paying subsc…
Quickmeets, a new dating app from a Penn graduate, uses AI to match users based on uploaded photos of celebrity crushes …
Grindr has launched "Taken on Grindr", an optional in-app camera that timestamps and watermarks photos to verify recency…
eHarmony-funded research claims dating app usage triggers hormonal changes comparable to gambling addiction Match Group …
Grindr has launched 'Between the Cheeks', a health information hub focused on anal health and colorectal cancer screenin…
66% of Gleeden's female users in India engage in emotional rather than sexual conversations, according to company data I…
Over 500,000 at-home HIV test kits distributed through dating apps between 2023 and early 2025 22% of dating app users s…
Seven major dating platforms including Match Group, Bumble, and Grindr have signed Australia's voluntary safety code req…
Social Discovery Group commits $20 million to venture fund targeting AI-powered dating tools and VR social platforms Fun…
Grindr has expanded its 'Right Now' feature—a one-hour expiry feed for immediate meetups—to 15 major cities including Lo…
UK romance fraud losses reached £92.3M in 2023, up 27% from 2021 Bumble's trust and safety headcount increased 23% year-…
Grindr reported 14.0 million monthly active users in Q4 2024, representing 8% year-on-year growth Average revenue per pa…
62% of 3,000 people tested failed to identify AI-generated dating profiles, despite 57% expressing confidence they could…
SugarDaddyMeet becomes first major dating platform to mandate universal AI-powered liveness verification for all users, …
HUD has reached 18 million users across 166 countries, nearly a decade after launching as an explicitly casual dating ap…
Hinge has launched Match Note, allowing members to share sensitive information—gender identity, neurodivergence, communi…
Match Group deploys AI message screening across Tinder and Hinge to combat harassment 20% of users revise flagged messag…
More than half of the 16 leaders named in Global Dating Insights' 2025 Power Book are building or overseeing AI-driven p…
67% of queer users feel safer meeting partners through apps than offline, compared to 52% of heterosexual users 71% of t…
Thailand became the first Southeast Asian nation to legalise same-sex marriage on 23rd January 2025 LGBTQIA+ matches now…
Ofcom has mandated dating platforms implement robust age verification by July 2025, with fines up to 10% of global turno…
Australia's voluntary dating app safety code enters active enforcement in April 2024, overseen by a compliance committee…
From 4 March, all dating and companionship advertisers must obtain Google certification or face a complete advertising b…
Global Dating Insights' annual Christmas networking event at Houses of Parliament takes place 5 December, with final tic…
Match Group reported a 6% year-on-year decline in paying users to 10 million in Q3 2024, whilst Bumble showed flat growt…
70% of MillionaireMatch users expect replies within two hours, according to a survey with undisclosed methodology Match …
SeniorMatch has made live video verification with human review mandatory for all new members Romance scams cost UK victi…
Romance scams targeting over-50s cost UK victims more than £92M annually, according to Action Fraud figures Manual video…
Dateability has reached 25,000 users across North America since launching in 2022, entirely through organic growth with …
Cyberflashing became a specific criminal offence in the UK in January 2024, carrying penalties of up to two years impris…
MillionaireMatch has introduced 'Confidentiality Guard', an opt-in feature that allows users to initiate legal action ag…
Mozilla's campaign forced Bumble to rewrite its privacy policy in October, but the company refused to implement opt-in c…
Dating apps connect partners across religious, educational, and geographical boundaries more effectively than offline me…
RAW's 'Ghosting Killer' feature blocks users from starting new conversations until they respond to existing ones, even i…
Happn is capping AI-curated daily matches at 10 profiles, departing from the infinite scroll model used by competitors M…
Online platforms now account for 60% of couples meeting their spouses—the first time a single channel has dominated rela…
45% of trans and nonbinary users avoid disclosing their identity on dating platforms due to harassment fears 30% of bise…
Australia's three largest dating platforms—Match Group, Bumble, and Grindr—control 75% of the local market and have sign…
75% of Australian dating app users surveyed experienced some form of sexual violence over a five-year period, according …
Black and Asian dating app users receive systematically fewer likes and matches than white users with identical profiles…
Gleeden's Indian user base grew from 800,000 pre-pandemic to 2.13 million by early 2023—a 166% increase in a market domi…
46% of 7,500 female respondents on QuackQuack claim dating apps feel safer than meeting potential partners in person Qua…
Northern Rail maintains a decade-old ban on dating apps across its WiFi network under the government-backed Friendly WiF…
Social Discovery Group operates over 60 dating platforms serving approximately 500 million users globally The company se…
Match Group's average revenue per paying user reached $17.93 in Q3 2024, up 7% year-over-year, with 'à la carte feature …
Men's stated age preferences on OkCupid consistently skew towards younger women regardless of the men's own age, whilst …
55% of Flirtini users and one in four Americans now use AI to generate dating app messages and profile content Third-par…
Rater, a two-year-old dating app, has appointed Lee-Michael Pronko as Head of Growth and Brand Marketing with a target o…
International matchmaking sector estimated to reach $3.2bn globally, spanning matchmaking, visa services, and romance to…
Global Dating Insights London conference set for 25 September at The Dilly Hotel with four challenger brands confirmed a…
Bumble's share price has collapsed roughly 80% from its IPO peak, with paying members declining year-on-year Elizabeth M…
QuackQuack has 30 million registered users and has launched a premium 'Human Matchmaker Model' combining AI advice with …
