At the request of the U.s. House of Representatives on Thursday launched an investigation into the safety of the popular datingapps, such as Tinder, Grindr, and Bumble. In the house of Commons, of the United States of america to the admission of the minor to the users, and sex offenders in the apps.
the Match of the Group, The Measure Group, the New Grindr and Bumble, Trading, parent company of the popular datingapps, have letters of request for the information about how the age of the user to authenticate to, and whether it is for sex offenders, it is allowed to use the apps. And the House of Afgevaardigen to know how the apps handle the privacy of the users and the data they have on their users.
the senior member and a member of the House of Representatives of the Raja Krishnamoorthi said he was especially concerned at recent reports showing that the popular free datingapps registered sex offenders appear on the apps, while the paid versions of the apps are sex offenders, however, be excluded. “Protection from sex offenders, should not be considered a luxury that is limited to paying customers,” said Krishnamoorthi.
At the New York Post responded to the Match Group, the parent company of Tinder, and that the company has “every possible tool” to minors, the apps will be safe and sound. Grindr, Bumble, and The Measures the Group is not yet on the inquiry of the House of Representatives to respond.
‘Surely, the perpetrators of child sexual abuse on the platform”
From a study by ProPublica, BuzzFeed and the Columbia Journalism Investigations, it appeared that in december of last year, Tinder, Plenty of Fish and OkCupid, all of which fall under the parent company of Match and Group, and does not verify that a user has committed to the pbs.
A spokesman with the Match Group, said the researchers, was that there was “in any case” the perpetrators of sexual abuse operate in the datingapps, and that the company does not have screeningsprotocol to develop as the company does not have the right user has access to.