Online Dating Apps ‘Swipe Right’ on New Safety Code

Published on July 4, 2024

Online dating apps have pledged to escalate complaints of imminent safety threats more swiftly to police under a voluntary industry code. The companies behind Tinder, Hinge, Bumble, Grindr, RSVP, and eharmony are among those to adopt the code, developed after the 2023 national roundtable on online dating safety. The Albanese government said the platforms would beef up engagement with law enforcement agencies, including proactively escalating complaints when there was an “imminent threat” to the complainant’s safety. Other features of the code are systems to detect potential incidents of online-enabled harm, termination of accounts found to have violated online safety policies, and prominent, clear, and transparent complaint and reporting mechanisms....

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