June 10, 2020

‘Bot or Not?’ – a game to train us to spot chatbots faking it as humans

Can you tell whether you're talking to a human or AI?

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January 27, 2020

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.

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January 21, 2020

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.

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January 16, 2020

Apps are sharing more of your data with ad industry than you may think

Apps like Grindr, Tinder and Happn are (over-)sharing data about sexuality, religion, and location with a shadowy network of data brokers. And it's not just dating apps that are doing it...

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September 27, 2019

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.

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June 14, 2019

Cop arrested following explicit chat with bogus 16yo girl

A male college student Snapchat-filtered himself into a young girl and went out to catch a predator. The first one he caught was a Californian cop.

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May 03, 2018

Facebook fires engineer accused of stalking women

The accused is alleged to have abused their privileged access to your data.

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February 22, 2018

How one guy could have taken over any Tinder account (but didn’t)

The potential outcome of the Tinder security hole - complete account takeover, with a crook logged in as you

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January 24, 2018

Tinder user? Lack of encryption means stalkers can watch you at it…

Researchers at Checkmarx decided to measure how securely Tinder handles all those images it sends you. Answer: not so much.

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