According to the Palm Beach Post, True.com has hired a well-connected lobbyist from Tampa — former Secretary of the Department of Management Services Cynthia Henderson — to push it’s legislative measures. Henderson, a first-term appointee of Gov. Jeb Bush, left state government with several other department heads in January 2003 when Bush reorganized his administration for the second term. Taylor Cole, True.com spokesperson handed out copies of a story stating that a New Jersey man that had a profile on match.com was charged with murdering a co-worker, her sister and her 3-year-old daughter last month.
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Shock tactics being turned to by True.com I see. Well may they highlight this chaps profile on Match.com, despite it being an obvious element of dirt digging and thus competition. I’d personally like to know when this accused murderer had his profile on Match? If it was before the crime he is accused of was committed are we to presume that Match.com should see into the future or that True.com already can?
My forums have a comment from a true.com member where she says she met someone off true.com and nearly got raped. She got out of a car in the middle of nowhere and ran hard. I suppose true.com really doesn’t want to publize that one. Also makes you wonder if they can be held legally responsible ?
I’d say that they aren’t legally responsible, but I’m sure they’ll be a landmark case one day to prove me wrong.
On the issue of legal responsibility, given that True.com tout that they are the safer as a result of their background checks – are they actually more legally liable than other sites?
Daniel:
Your comments have some validation. However, what is the liability for not offering background checks when sites like True are offering them and the technology exist for all sites to implement. If a site neglects to have background checks on their site – what is there liability?
In my own mind (and it’s obviously just an opinion) I’d say that their liability would be no more than that of any social environment that can be tailored to allow people to meet eachother. Take a night club for instance, the technology exists to detect people carrying drugs, weapons and the processes to prevent date rape could also be implemented – but, to the best of my knowledge, they’re not in Australia and probably not in the majority of countires (or at least not on any scale). There are a lot of instances where technology could be implemented to protect or help people but isn’t. In this instance the only reason is because it is being used as a competition and marketing tool.
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