Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

ftc.gov

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

11–20 of 166 posts

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#11

Post by the__alchemist »

junkaccount100 wrote: post #7

Throwaway account. I tried these sites a couple of times each in the past (the UK versions at least). I'm married now and fortunately don't have to deal with "the dating scene" and how awful it is/was. When I signed up for Match, about ten minutes into the process my account suddenly changed to that of another man including different photo, descriptions, orientation etc. I don't know why this happened but it was abso…

I had my OKC account hacked or merged to in the same fashion. I've never had this happen before with any online service.

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#12

Post by jgalt212 »

> As part of a settlement, OkCupid, operated by Dallas-based Humor Rainbow, Inc., and Match Group Americas, which provides services for Humor Rainbow, will be prohibited from misrepresenting its privacy policies.

Because everyone else is "allowed" to misrepresent its privacy policies.

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#13

Post by john_strinlai »

this kind of "action"/"settlement" is too funny:

>"As part of a settlement, OkCupid [...] will be prohibited from misrepresenting its privacy policies."

>"Under the proposed settlement, OkCupid and Match are permanently prohibited from misrepresenting or assisting others in misrepresenting: [...]"

every company should already be "prohibited from misrepresenting its privacy policies" and the collection/controls stuff.

12 years, including intentional obstruction of the ftc investigation, and we get "please dont do that again". (dad voice: im not surprised, just disappointed)

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#14

Post by justonceokay »

john_strinlai wrote: post #10
rationalist wrote: post #6

No class action or fines for discrimination based on gender? OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile.

> OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile. never heard or thought about this before, but it kind of makes sense for a dating app. its one of the only levers available to them to attempt any sort of balance between user genders. it sucks for everyone (including the users) if the male:female ratio is like 20:1 or whatever. i would rather pay a couple of extra…

If your main problem with a dating app is that men pay more than women, then you’re not going to like being in a relationship very much at all :)

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#15

Post by loeg »

john_strinlai wrote: post #10
rationalist wrote: post #6

No class action or fines for discrimination based on gender? OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile.

> OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile. never heard or thought about this before, but it kind of makes sense for a dating app. its one of the only levers available to them to attempt any sort of balance between user genders. it sucks for everyone (including the users) if the male:female ratio is like 20:1 or whatever. i would rather pay a couple of extra…

The ratio is that bad anyway.

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#16

Post by Acrobatic_Road »

rationalist wrote: post #6

No class action or fines for discrimination based on gender? OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile.

There's so much shady and unethical behavior from these companies I'm surprised there's not more lawsuits and litigation against them.

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#17

Post by m463 »

chaps wrote: post #9

I once went on a date with someone who did research at OKCupid who told me that they were doing NLP-style analysis of peoples' messages that they sent to each other. Still not really sure what to think of the date itself, but it was a fucked up admission.

makes me wonder if the person you went on a date with cherry-picked you due to your data. (anyone who would post on hacker news is obviously a good catch!)

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#18

Post by toast0 »

m463 wrote: post #17
chaps wrote: post #9

I once went on a date with someone who did research at OKCupid who told me that they were doing NLP-style analysis of peoples' messages that they sent to each other. Still not really sure what to think of the date itself, but it was a fucked up admission.

makes me wonder if the person you went on a date with cherry-picked you due to your data. (anyone who would post on hacker news is obviously a good catch!)

> anyone who would post on hacker news is obviously a good catch!

"the odds are good, but the goods are odd" may apply here

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#19

Post by hamdingers »

john_strinlai wrote: post #10
rationalist wrote: post #6

No class action or fines for discrimination based on gender? OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile.

> OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile. never heard or thought about this before, but it kind of makes sense for a dating app. its one of the only levers available to them to attempt any sort of balance between user genders. it sucks for everyone (including the users) if the male:female ratio is like 20:1 or whatever. i would rather pay a couple of extra…

If you exclude bots and otherwise fake accounts the ratio is much worse than 20:1.

Re: FTC action against Match and OkCupid for deceiving users, sharing personal data

#20

Post by john_strinlai »

hamdingers wrote: post #19
john_strinlai wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> OkCupid gave users different prices based on whether they selected male or female for their profile. never heard or thought about this before, but it kind of makes sense for a dating app. its one of the only levers available to them to attempt any sort of balance between user genders. it sucks for everyone (including the users) if the male:female ratio is like 20:1 or whatever. i would rather pay a couple of extra…

If you exclude bots and otherwise fake accounts the ratio is much worse than 20:1.

that sucks!

whatever more accurate numbers you want to substitute in there is fine, the point remains the same.

Post reply on HN