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Facebook fires engineer accused of stalking, possibly by abusing data access
▻https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/02/facebook-engineer-fired-alleged-stalker-tinder

Employee allegedly called himself ‘professional stalker’ on Tinder as site seeks to launch dating app and faces privacy scandal Facebook has fired a security engineer after he was accused of stalking women online possibly by abusing his “privileged access” to data, raising renewed concerns about users’ privacy at the social network. The controversy, which came to light after the employee allegedly called himself a “professional stalker” in a message to a woman he met on Tinder, is particularly (...)

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Appeals court rules that Tinder’s pricing violates age discrimination laws
▻https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/30/appeals-court-rules-that-tinders-pricing-violates-age-discrimination-law

A California appeals court has sided with Allan Candelore, a man suing Tinder over the pricing for its premium service, Tinder Plus. Specifically, Candelore and his lawyers argued that by charging $9.99 per month if a user is under 30, versus $19.99 per month if you’re 30 or older, Tinder is discriminating based on age, in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act and the Unfair Competition Law (those are both California laws). Tinder co-founder Sean Rad defended the pricing at TechCrunch’s (...)

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First Evidence That Online Dating Is Changing the Nature of Society - MIT Technology Review
►https://www.technologyreview.com/s/609091/first-evidence-that-online-dating-is-changing-the-nature-of-societ

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Indeed, this has long been reflected in surveys of the way people meet their partners: through mutual friends, in bars, at work, in educational institutions, at church, through their families, and so on.

Online dating has changed that. Today, online dating is the second most common way for heterosexual couples to meet. For homosexual couples, it is far and away the most popular.

That has significant implications. “People who meet online tend to be complete strangers,” say Ortega and Hergovich. And when people meet in this way, it sets up social links that were previously nonexistent.

The question that Ortega and Hergovich investigate is how this changes the racial diversity of society. “Understanding the evolution of interracial marriage is an important problem, for intermarriage is widely considered a measure of social distance in our societies,” they say.

Next, the researchers compare the results of their models to the observed rates of interracial marriage in the U.S. This has been on the increase for some time, but the rates are still low, not least because interracial marriage was banned in some parts of the country until 1967.

But the rate of increase changed at about the time that online dating become popular. “It is intriguing that shortly after the introduction of the first dating websites in 1995, like Match.com, the percentage of new marriages created by interracial couples increased rapidly,” say the researchers.

The increase became steeper in the 2000s, when online dating became even more popular. Then, in 2014, the proportion of interracial marriages jumped again. “It is interesting that this increase occurs shortly after the creation of Tinder, considered the most popular online dating app,” they say.

Tinder has some 50 million users and produces more than 12 million matches a day.

Of course, this data doesn’t prove that online dating caused the rise in interracial marriages. But it is consistent with the hypothesis that it does.

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Why Tinder Charmers and Movie Heroes Move the Same Way - Facts So Romantic
▻http://nautil.us/blog/why-tinder-charmers-and-movie-heroes-move-the-same-way

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Tinder—in case you’re not active in the young-person dating pool—is a dating application that shows you pictures of other Tinder users in your area. If you are not interested in meeting the person you see, you swipe their picture to the left. If you are interested, you swipe right. If two people right-swipe each other’s photos, the app suggests they get together. (If there is not mutual interest, nothing happens.) Tinder became a quick success in 2013, spawning several copycats, from apps that help your job search to others that help find the right pet, all using the simple swiping interface. In the visual design of the app, Tinder’s founders capitalized on a bit of human psychology: It seems natural that a positive feeling should be indicated with a rightward swipe rather than a leftward (...)