Going on a Tinder date but want to know more about them than what's on the surface? This tool will help you find the red flags.
Tinder wants to help people surface red flags about potential dates through quick and affordable criminal background checks.
To conduct a search, Garbo asks for information that one might readily have about a possible online dating connection as one nears an IRL date, such as a first and last name and a phone number. More information, such as age, date of birth, zodiac sign and zip code, will help surface more accurate results.
Some safety experts see Tinder's incorporation of Garbo's tool as an example of paying lip service to the issue while shifting the burden to its most vulnerable users. Kosmides acknowledges Garbo is far from a silver bullet. The database currently has more than one billion records of violent and harmful behavior, the nonprofit said. But there's also a significant caveat, which Kosmides and Garbo make clear."Most violent individuals never interact with the criminal justice system," Garbo's website states.
Tinder, like Uber, has drawn significant attention over the platform's safety issues. Months before Breeden joined, ProPublica and Columbia Journalism Investigations exposed shortcomings of Tinder and other dating services, including how they fail to crack down on sex offenders. Tinder said it will give users two free background checks on Garbo to start. For non-Tinder users, or for any subsequent searches, people can purchase one, three, or five credits from Garbo for $2.50 a piece plus a processing fee. The site also gives the option to pay more to donate free searches to people in need.
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