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Re: Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo

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Post by selfhoster11 » Wed, Mar 09, 2022, 7:51 PM UTC

I don't think I'd ask for a background check on a person I'm meeting. Instead I'd speak to their parents, and my parents, as a sanity check before things get too involved. Perhaps even talk to their friends a little to find out how they're perceived.

If I found out that my date did a background check on me, that would be a violation of my trust. I don't have anything to hide, but that doesn't mean you should be trying to uncover my background.

Re: Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo

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Post by aaaaaaaaata » Wed, Mar 09, 2022, 11:12 PM UTC

txsoftwaredev wrote: post #7

Maybe meeting random strangers from the internet for casual sex isn't the smartest idea to begin with.

Do what our parents did, go to the bar and let the liquor do the choosing!

Re: Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo

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Post by krageon » Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 8:09 AM UTC

armchairhacker wrote: post #10

krageon wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> [...] flagging some ethnicities or unrelated characteristics [...] This implies ethnicity is a characteristic related to flagging.

If they use machine learning, it has happened in ML to calculate bail or risk of reoffending

In the US, sure. The machine learns from what has already happened and the place is notoriously racist (or at least the police is).

Re: Tinder rolls out in-app access to background checks, powered by nonprofit Garbo

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Post by aaaaaaaaata » Thu, Mar 10, 2022, 4:07 PM UTC

nix23 wrote: post #15

TimesOldRoman wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is 2022, not 1990.

So there are no strangers in 2022 anymore? Or times are so much better then in 1990...but then..why the need for something like this? What do you mean precisely?

The only strangers are the ones we let drive the "rideshare".