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OPLIN 4cast #566: Swiping left on dating apps
November 1st, 2017

[image: Dating App on smart phone] Lurking among the big tech stories this
week -- the launch of a new iPhone, the unveiling of Amazon Key, a new
vulnerability in Wifi transmissions -- were a few unrelated stories all
orbiting a common theme: dating apps. Last year, the Pew Research Center
found that 15% of American adults reported using a dating website or mobile
app
<http://www.pewinternet.org/2016/02/11/15-percent-of-american-adults-have-used-online-dating-sites-or-mobile-dating-apps/>,
with the actual number probably being much higher. Developers are finding
increasingly clever ways to match us all up, but where there is data, there
is the risk of breaches and other abuses.

   -
   - The Future of Online Dating is Unsexy and Brutally Effective
   <https://gizmodo.com/the-future-of-online-dating-is-unsexy-and-brutally-effe-1819781116>
   [Gizmodo | Dale Markowitz] "In the future, apps like Tinder may be able to
   infer more about our personalities and lifestyles through our social media
   activity than an eHarmony questionnaire ever could capture. Researchers
   already think they can predict how neurotic we are from our Foursquare
   check-ins, whether or not we’re depressed from our Tweets and the filters
   we choose on Instagram, and how intelligent, happy, and likely to use drugs
   we are from our Facebook likes."
   - Tonight is a new dating app optimized for real dates
   <https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/25/tonight-dating-app/> [TechCrunch |
   Anthony Ha] "You sign on when you’re free for a date that very evening. If
   both you and one of your matches is free, the app will give you a time and
   a place to meet up. You’ll need to sign in by 6pm to get a date that night,
   which will hopefully discourage people who are just looking for a hookup.
   In addition, users get penalized for flaking out, and they’re eventually
   removed if they keep doing it."
   - Online dating apps riddled with security risks
   <https://www.itproportal.com/news/online-dating-apps-riddled-with-security-risks/>
[ITProPortal
   | Michael Moore] "The Kaspersky Labs team investigated nine of the leading
   dating apps, and discovered that many fail to protect users from criminals,
   who could identify customers through finding out details on social media
   profiles, or even track them down in the real world using geolocation data."
   - Gay Dating Apps Are Protecting Users Amid Egypt's LGBTQ Crackdown
   <https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pa3pxg/gay-dating-apps-are-protecting-users-amid-egypts-lgbtq-crackdown>
   [Vice | Mike Miksche] "A recent update to Grindr in Middle Eastern, Gulf
   and North African areas enables users to change the Grindr thumbnail on
   their phone into something less conspicuous, and set a passcode to open the
   app and protect the content inside. And the Egyptian crackdown has prompted
   Hornet and Grindr to send safety tips to users in Arabic, reminding them to
   take extra steps to confirm the identity of users they might meet from the
   app and tell others where they'll be beforehand."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Match Me If You Can
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=120215774&site=ehost-live>
   . (*Consumer Reports*,  Feb2017,p38-45. | Marisa Meltzer)
   - Can Women Fix Dating?
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=111944290&site=ehost-live>
    (*Marie Claire* [US Edition], Feb2016, p164-167 | Lane Florsheim)
   - Should We Worry About Online Dating?
   <http://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cmh&AN=123768386>
   (*Your Teen for Parents*, 2017, p54-55 | Mary Helen Berg)

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