FBI to provide Background Checks to Dating Sites?
The FBI is expected to announce this week the awarding of a $1 billion, 10-year contract to develop the largest and most comprehensive government biometrics database in history — with information on the palm prints, eye scans, tattoos, and other identifying...Say Goodbye to Passwords with Vidoop
Perusing the list of presenters and sponsors of the Social Networking and Dating conference in Miami. I came across Vidoop, which is building out a single signon solution based on Open ID. Vidoop provides corporate-grade security to websites, but with an interesting...MySpace to Let Parents Block Their Children From Joining
At first glance, the dozens of measures Myspace has agreed to take to make it’s users safer, those outlined in this New York Times article seem easily hackable and not quite the watershed moment we were expecting, especially since MySpace has been talking to...New Jersey Background Checks Legislation
New Jersey Governor Jim Corizon yesterday signed bill SB1977, which opponents argue will impose what critics consider unenforceable and problematic restrictions on dating sites and foster confusion among dating site visitors. For some historical perspective, similar...Eharmony Announces New Online ID Verification Service
Update: Eharmony is not in fact offering background checks. The RelyID is an identity authentication service only. I confused the fact that RelyID has access to criminal data, which is described in the press release, with background checks. Good news for online...
From 2002-2019, David Evans helped entrepreneurs, investors, and the media, make sense of the online dating industry.
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