Tinder users will soon be able to access a background check database - PoCs most affected - literally.

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The owner of massive dating apps Tinder and Match has just announced a new partnership to help keep its users safe. Match Group, which owns Tinder, Match, OK Cupid, Hinge and several other services, has made an investment in Garbo, a non-profit, female-founded background check platform. As part of the deal, Garbo's platform will be available to people using Match Group apps, starting with Tinder later this year.
If you're not familiar with Garbo, it was founded by Kathryn Kosmides, a "survivor of gender-based violence" who wanted to make it easier to find information about people you may connect with online. Garbo's platform aggregates numerous data sources to provide details on an individual, including "arrests, convictions, restraining orders, harassment, and other violent crimes." The organization's site says that often times, you don't even need a last time to find some details on an individual — a first name and phone number will work.

The organization is also working with racial and gender equality groups to make sure that inequities in the justice system that disproportionately affect people of color are taken into account. For example, Garbo recently announced that it was excluding drug possession charges from its platform. One of the reasons it gave was that the imprisonment rate for African Americans on drug charges is almost six times that for white people.

How this integration will work remains to be seen, but it's not hard to imagine that Tinder will be able to ping Garbo's database and proactively show users when it finds something they might want to be aware of. It also seems likely that this information will be available in other Match Group apps at some point, though there's no word yet on when that'll happen. Garbo cites making ridesharing services safer as another core initiative for the non-profit in addition to working with dating services, so it wouldn't surprise us to see a similar partnership appear between Garbo and companies like Uber or Lyft — but for now, it's starting with Tinder.

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Any guesses on how fast they plan to exclude violent crime charges?
 
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Yea, they're gonna get sued very quickly for discrimination due to disproportionate racial crime rates.
 
The organization is also working with racial and gender equality groups to make sure that inequities in the justice system that disproportionately affect people of color are taken into account. For example, Garbo recently announced that it was excluding drug possession charges from its platform. One of the reasons it gave was that the imprisonment rate for African Americans on drug charges is almost six times that for white people.
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If you're going to half-ass it or just lie then why even bother?
It seems like Tinder had their hearts in the right place but then just trashed it for woke points, and it's still going to get them called out for being racist.
 
Lol, this reminds me of all the "true crime" podcasters and YouTubers who simultaneously advocate for BLM/police reform, but also never shut the fuck up about the "horrible, inexcusable" backlog of unprocessed rape kits. If there were massive reallocations of funds and those kits were all processed tomorrow, black men would be astronomically overrepresented as the perpetrators. You can't actually protect women by keeping them informed without admitting black males pose the highest risk per capita, it's just not possible.
 
Say hi to Miss? Kathryn Kosmides everyone:
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Some of the fine things she's been retweeting.
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Sam Losco said:
Some of the fine things she's been retweeting.
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Look if your business is doing background checks on men in dating aps, it makes sense to retweet every alarmist tweet.

Like umbrella salesmen talking about how getting wet sucks.
 
They're going to be sued into the ground the first time this thing faildoxes someone.
 
I wonder if this will make women LESS safe. They are undoubtedly going to miss many potentially violent people with their search. Hell, probably the most dangerous don't even have records.

So, some woman sees on the site that the guy is ok. People being naturally lazy and complacent, she just accepts that this is a normal guy. She doesn't take normal precautions. She doesn't tell a friend and make sure they contact each other by phone during the date, she doesn't insist on meeting him in a public place and instead agrees to have him pick her up at her house.

Voila, dismembered thot.

Who could have forseen it?
 
Dracula's Spirit Animal said:
I wonder if this will make women LESS safe. They are undoubtedly going to miss many potentially violent people with their search. Hell, probably the most dangerous don't even have records.

So, some woman sees on the site that the guy is ok. People being naturally lazy and complacent, she just accepts that this is a normal guy. She doesn't take normal precautions. She doesn't tell a friend and make sure they contact each other by phone during the date, she doesn't insist on meeting him in a public place and instead agrees to have him pick her up at her house.

Voila, dismembered thot.

Who could have forseen it?
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That's a really good point. It's sort of like moving from a diverse area to one that's majority white. When you're in a diverse area, you tend to stick with the people who are like you, meaning you'd probably go out on a boat on the lake if invited by some people you met at a bar that were also white, and not have any problems. But when you get to an area where everyone looks the same, you have to recalibrate your radar to suss out the baddies, meaning if you go out on a boat on a lake with someone just because they look like you, you might end up dropped off 13 miles from your originating point because Bubba didn't want to bring you home at 1:30am.

Women need to learn to rely on their guts, and recognize that the people most like you (feminist men, for example) are just as able and willing to do violence on your ass - and as you said, this "screening" process is doing nothing but instilling a false sense of security and in doing so, is also diminishing the natural sense of danger women have cultivated over the years.
 
Garbo cites making ridesharing services safer as another core initiative for the non-profit in addition to working with dating services, so it wouldn't surprise us to see a similar partnership appear between Garbo and companies like Uber or Lyft — but for now, it's starting with Tinder.
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Sound idea, troll people's records for BS domestic violence charges and exclude drug convictions, this will definitely improve the quality of your drive

Their results are going to be pretty limited and unreliable, especially if they're trying to keep their costs close to zero. They claim to be a "data aggregator." Where are they getting this data? Maybe half the states have some kind of free online court records, but the method of accessing them, their coverage, and their quality varies widely. PACER will make you pay for Federal searches if you do them in volume. The military keeps court martial and NJP records to itself, you have to file a FOIA request to see those. DOC records vary by state. Sex offender records are pretty readily available, but good luck matching those.

I suspect one of two things is really happening: Either they're serving as a front end for a commercial service, because "non-profit owned by a woman survivor of gender-based violence" sounds better than "multinational data broker," or they're typing people's names into Google and reporting whatever they find in the first mug shot web site. Either way, they're selling your Tinder swiping preferences to a data broker.
 
For example, Garbo recently announced that it was excluding drug possession charges from its platform. One of the reasons it gave was that the imprisonment rate for African Americans on drug charges is almost six times that for white people.
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This would be a lot less annoying if they excluded drug stuff just because drug use is an individual choice or whatever. IIRC OKCupid has drug use as one of their core questions in the profile, so they're clearly not all up in arms about drugs. But no, it has to be about niggerdom.
 
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