Still, people only know what their potential paramour has revealed about themselves on a first date. While an inch or two is not going to hold most people back from true love, outright lies about their identity, relationship status, or criminal record might.
Further, there are crimes that have to do with matters of the heart on the apps themselves. While a single crime of this magnitude is unique, the amount is not—there is an epidemic of violence on dating apps.
While dating online is full of hope and promise, there are measures you and the apps themselves must take to ensure your potential future soulmate is a person that you safely and securely spend time with. With that in mind, Top Match Group includes a suite of dating brands with over 11 million paying users as of May that includes Tinder , Match, BlackPeopleMeet. The company announced in March a partnership with nonprofit background check technology Garbo, which was founded by a female survivor of gender-based violence.
The app provides historical information about domestic violence and abuse to empower members to make more informed decisions about who they choose to meet. Garbo says an upcoming app will be available for download, but for the time being, users can perform two searches for free if they have accounts with dating apps like Tinder. Badoo, with over million users in countries, combats this violation by using artificial intelligence to sense and automatically blur these images, with an option to unblur if the user wishes.
The app makes sure the person is legitimate by having users take an image in a unique pose to verify. Badoo also allows users to further verify using a phone number or social network account and marks verification on their profile with either a blue checkmark on a white background or a white checkmark on a blue background, depending on the levels of verification each user went through. With more than million users as of , Bumble is as popular as it is unique.
