The app’s rollout in the EU has been delayed until Facebook can show privacy regulators its data protection workings.
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Tinder to get panic button, catfish-fighting facial recognition
It’s both a genius move to protect from assault and fraud and a personal data grab.
What do online file sharers want with 70,000 Tinder images?
A researcher has discovered thousands of Tinder users’ images publicly available for free online.
Match knowingly puts people at risk from scammers, FTC charges
Match.com allegedly put users on its free version at risk – by not filtering out communications that it knew were from fake accounts.
US charges 80 in world-spanning romance scam and email fraud ring
The $6m scam targeted women worldwide and victimized more than a dozen companies.
Scammers recruiting money mules on dating sites is on the rise, says FBI
It’s not longer enough to be wary of flash-in-the-pan “lovers” who ask you to send money; now they’re asking you to open accounts for them.
Romance scam victim allegedly plotted to kill her mother for cash
An identity theft online dating scam led police to uncover texts that detailed the murder-for-hire plot.
Ashley Madison hackers keep on going, post even BIGGER trove of data
The hackers behind the massive breach of user data from AshleyMadison.com are still at it – posting another larger dump of data from the cheaters’ dating site for the second time this week.
Ashley Madison hackers follow through on threat, dump user database online
The 9.7 GB dump contains names, emails, addresses, sexual preferences and credit card transactions of 37 million members.
Women posed as fake brides to scam ISIS out of $3000
Even if you pull one over on the world’s most fearsome terrorist army, it’s still illegal.