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Background Checks For Dating Apps

11 mins·12:45, 4 Dec 2019
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Background Checks For Dating Apps

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12:45, 4 Dec 2019
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Match Group, the largest dating app conglomerate in the US, doesn’t perform background checks on any of its apps’ free users. A ProPublica report today highlights a few incidents in which registered sex offenders went on dates with women who had no idea they were talking to a convicted criminal. Why can’t these apps verify their users?

Presenter: Richard Bradbury & Arvindh Yuvaraj

Producer: Christine Wong

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