All articles tagged with "Privacy & Data"
Williams has broken a two-year silence with a document-backed account of the collapse of Ambervine's partnership with Hu…
Romance scam losses reached $1.14 billion in 2023, marking a 15% year-on-year increase according to Federal Trade Commis…
Threat actor claims to be selling personal data from 51 million Badoo accounts on dark web marketplaces, including email…
ODDA has granted associate partner status to Veriff, an Estonian identity verification provider processing over 12,500 d…
Korean dating app APTING requires users to verify apartment ownership or residency before creating a profile, using elec…
A cybercriminal claims to be selling 15 million Grindr user records, including HIV test information, on dark web marketp…
Threat actors claim to be selling 670,000 DatingBuzz user records including emails, passwords, chat logs, and partner pr…
70% of Coffee Meets Bagel active users completed AI-powered video selfie verification within the first month of rollout …
Meta now deploys AI to analyse height, bone structure, and physical markers in photos to identify users under 13 on Face…
Match Group has partnered with World, Sam Altman's biometric scanning company, to introduce iris-scanning verification f…
Ashley Madison releases 'Discreet Dictionary' with ten privacy-focused dating terms eleven years after 37 million user r…
South Korea fined matchmaking firm Duo 1.2 billion won ($810,000) following a January 2025 breach affecting nearly 430,0…
OkCupid transferred 3 million user photos to AI firm Clarifai in 2014 without consent or written agreement The transfer …
India's Joint Committee on the Data Protection Bill has recommended mandatory KYC identity verification for all users of…
84% of EU adults do not trust American tech companies with their personal data, according to a Politico survey of nearly…
Gleeden has 4 million Indian members despite serving extramarital connections in a culturally conservative market India'…
Tinder has made facial verification compulsory for all new users in Singapore, its third market after the US and UK Matc…
DateGuard launches April 2026 as a third-party verification service using facial recognition, voice analysis, and AI-pow…
From 4 April, Tinder will require all Dutch users to submit to mandatory facial biometric scanning or face permanent acc…
Match Group settled with the FTC over OkCupid sharing user photos, location data, and personal information with AI firm …
Match Group's Tinder and Meetic join Bumble and Grindr in signing French government charter targeting homophobic ambush …
Grindr CEO claims AI generates 70% of the company's codebase—a claim no other major dating platform has approached Premi…
Green Flags charges men to contest or remove negative reviews posted about them on Tea, a women-only dating safety app t…
Swept dating app introduces in-app Date Planner tool allowing users to build, propose, and confirm date itineraries with…
MyTruDate requires all users to pass ID verification and criminal background checks covering 200+ offence categories bef…
Portugal's parliament voted 148-69 to require parental consent for 13- to 16-year-olds accessing social media, enforced …
PositiveSingles, an STD-focused dating platform, has launched a lifetime membership tier explicitly targeting celebritie…
Breeze has partnered with Bolt to offer users 40% off their first trip to a date, alongside a nine-point safety guide 34…
ParshipMeet Group appoints Justin Zinck, former HelloFresh Senior Director Finance, as CFO from February 2026 Match Grou…
Tinder reported a 9% decrease in monthly active users for Q4 2025 year-over-year New registrations fell 5% year-over-yea…
TikTok's U.S. daily active users rebounded to above 90 million after dropping to 86–88 million in late January following…
Over 10 million records exposed across Match Group's portfolio including Hinge, OkCupid, and Match.com following ShinyHu…
Ashley Madison claims users are pursuing 'microromances'—short-term, emotionally intense connections with multiple concu…
Tea exposed government IDs, selfie videos, private messages, and home addresses for over one million users in July data …
Snapchat will lock Australian accounts believed to belong to under-16s from 10 December, the first major platform to act…
Tinder now requires facial verification for all new California users, creating encrypted "face maps" stored permanently …
Grindr is in talks for a $3 billion private buyout following lender Fullerton Financial Holdings seizing shares after de…
One in five Gen Z and Millennial singles want to see credit scores on dating profiles, according to a Credit One Bank su…
UK dating apps must implement age verification via selfie videos or government ID from 25 July 2025 under Ofcom's Online…
Coffee Meets Bagel now mandates Singpass verification in Singapore, making it the first dating platform to require gover…
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…
Ashley Madison has launched Discreet View Mode, blurring photos and profiles by default until users choose to reveal the…
Romance and dating fraud cost UK victims £92 million in 2023, making it one of the costliest fraud categories nationally…
Raw Dating exposed GPS coordinates, birth dates, and sexual preferences of over 500,000 users through an unsecured API f…
Zepeel uses facial recognition AI to ban filters and edited photos, blocking users who attempt to upload altered images …
RAW dating app is developing a wearable ring that tracks heart rate, body temperature, and voice patterns to monitor use…
Grindr has deployed a consent management platform via OneTrust, giving free users a choice between personalised or gener…
Gleeden has reached 3 million users in India with 270% annual growth Female sign-ups surged 128% year-on-year, outpacing…
Match Group has 16 million paying subscribers globally whilst Bumble claims 4 million KRUSH reported fewer than 500 comb…
Couple.com is testing AI that analyses facial micro-expressions, vocal tone, and body language during three-minute video…
Grindr plans full rollout of AI dating assistant by 2027 that will communicate directly with other users' AI agents befo…
Ashley Madison is the most-searched and most-recommended dating platform in Texas, the only US state where the affair-fo…
Rizz, an AI dating assistant, has reached 7.5 million downloads since launching in 2022 The app analyses dating app scre…
Tinder's 18 million US members can now register to vote, check registration status, and find polling locations directly …
The McPartland Review proposes mandatory disclosure of third-party suppliers handling sensitive user data for dating pla…
