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[dontsteponmyshoes]

Tinder will let you perform background checks before swiping right for $2.50

Popular dating app Tinder is now helping you find a huge red flag before a potential date—a violent criminal history.

Tinder’s parent company, Match Group, which owns a number of other apps including Match.com, OkCupid, and Hinge, is now providing criminal background checks to users on its flagship app Tinder, for $2.50 a check.

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The new feature will be performed by Garbo, a nonprofit background check platform, which Match group made a seven-figure investment in one year ago. When the feature is used, Garbo will find arrests and convictions for certain violent crimes as well as sex offender registry status, with a level of confidence of high, medium, or low.

“We know that the biggest indicator of future abuse or violence is a history of these types of behaviors. Whether it’s online dating or the dozens of other ways we meet strangers in today’s digital age, we should know if we’re potentially putting our safety at risk,” Kathryn Kosmides, founder of Garbo, said in a statement with Tinder.

The new feature will be found in the app’s safety center, accessible via a blue shield icon that will take users to the Garbo website. There, they will be able to fill in basic information regarding their match, which usually just requires a first name and phone number, to get a background check from the Garbo database.

Once the results are in, Tinder users can choose how they wish to proceed. However, “members are encouraged to report a match to Tinder if they are found to have a history of violence,” the company said in a statement.


In its existing policies, Match Group removes any account where a user has been accused of sexual assault or other violent crimes by another user across all its apps.

Women’s safety and social equitability
However, for those with minor offenses in nonviolent crimes, which disproportionately affect marginalized communities, Garbo has taken measures to ensure that they won’t be kicked out of the modern dating pool.

Garbo looks up only critical information, which would indicate a history of violence. It excludes nonviolent drug crimes, loitering, and minor traffic tickets (though DUIs and vehicular manslaughter will be flagged). It also doesn’t include arrests and convictions for financial crimes that happened more than seven years ago, or homicides or robberies that took place 14 years in the past.

Garbo also notes that they don’t return any personal information, like home addresses and phone numbers, as its rivals do, to avoid stalking, doxxing, or other forms of harassment.

As the popularity of dating apps has soared in recent years, so has the number of sexual assaults associated with the swiping. A BBC investigation found the number of reported sexual assault cases linked to dating apps doubled in the U.K. between 2017 and 2020.

Tracey Breeden, head of safety and social advocacy at Match Group, said in a statement, “For far too long women and traditionally marginalized groups have faced many barriers to resources and safety.”

Tinder background check: Dating app will let users perform criminal checks on dates | Fortune

Tinder is rolling out a new feature—criminal background checks for $2.50

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So instead of just making it to where if you're on the sex registry or whatever they run the background checks on you can't be on the platform by placing it in the TOS saying they run the background checks on you before you join. They hit people over the head to creep on you? Oh we'll allow the sex offenders and violent offenders on the app...unless somebody finds out

 

[BIG LEEMELONE]

For da beasts..

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[15 or less]

For da beasts..

Spoiler

 

[Mark Antony]

Thangs will ruin you. Got a little shorty interested that I barely pay any mind because she not so thanged up.

 

[fluid hips]

Sundress season soon come

 

[willypete]

Sundress season soon come

After we get past the 3rd winter

 

[storm2006]

This reminded of WASHED KING and the thread

 

[WASHED KING]

This reminded of WASHED KING and the thread

They call me crazy.

Whole time I be right. Got me feeling like Kanye.

 

[ahat]

Dog mom? Dog dad? Axe throwing?

 

[fluid hips]

Bish needs to know it's iOS not Apple

 

[WASHED KING]

Bish needs to know it's iOS not Apple

They are not that smart. Hence why they all have iPhones.

Y’all think I was tryna clown phone choices whole time these broads are just carbon copy’s of each other.

 

[storm2006]

It's funny discussing this on NT because we are talking about it as men and how we do/don't judge women based on it. On the flipside, I am leaning towards them actually extremely judge-y about it, especially if they have an Android. I matched with a younger joint (24) over the weekend and she made a comment about it not being a dealbreaker but they make judgements. She said that "green texters are either more out of touch or pretty stubborn in their ways. Not saying everyone has to have an iphone but I feel like people that don't have them are more like that."

WASHED KING 's points have some legs. PM me if you want the info so y'all can iMessage.

 

[Based Jesus]

Shorty making personality calls off the color of a text message?
That's even worse than the space racism astrology nonsense

 

[Mark Antony]

Them 85 south boys admirers of the finer thangs too.

 

[tomdiginson]

It's funny discussing this on NT because we are talking about it as men and how we do/don't judge women based on it. On the flipside, I am leaning towards them actually extremely judge-y about it, especially if they have an Android. I matched with a younger joint (24) over the weekend and she made a comment about it not being a dealbreaker but they make judgements. She said that "green texters are either more out of touch or pretty stubborn in their ways. Not saying everyone has to have an iphone but I feel like people that don't have them are more like that."

WASHED KING 's points have some legs. PM me if you want the info so y'all can iMessage.

I agree with this.

 

[dontsteponmyshoes]

I thought the debate was dudes judging on the bubble color . Either way I'm too old for that isht. When it comes to dating apps I'm reminded of a quote from the late 20th century philosopher Cam'ron, "babygirl you Gon suck it or not."

 

[willypete]

I actually had someone I went out with that deaded all of this type of talk. I don’t remember exactly what was said but the chick I was with literally was like “don’t pay for them, they got money and go to work just like you do” I think she said something then having dudes for that as well. I’d either cut her off immediately or go at the friends as well if a chick expected me to pay for everybody at the table.

 

[WASHED KING]

Only way I’m paying for both if I’m getting a threesome out of it.

 

[fluid hips]

Shorty tryna clown someone when she most likely has bad credit

 

[ahat]

They went to the restaurant and her friend invited her man. So if she didnt invite her man was she not gonna pay for her own meal/order? The entitlement lol

 

[fluid hips]

Bish do I look like a meal plan? Couldn't be me

 

[Mark Antony]

Hope her friend sees that and deads her.

 

[oidreez]

These **** just be tweeting anything trying to stir up controversy because she knows people will argue about it

 

[Grine]

Facts.

 

[smedroc]

Dog mom? Dog dad? Axe throwing?

Distinct lack of melanin in that profile.