Tinder will call the authorities once you use the panic button upon confirming.
Tinder is an online dating app where you can find people of your interests and go on to a date with them, since you don't know your date personally or you haven't met them before, you will have no idea what can happen on that date that may will surprise you.
Tinder to protect it's users from dangerous dates, released a new panic button that one can use if they found themselves in a dangerous situation at a date, Tinder partnered with safety app Noonlight company to come up with this feature in their app.
To use this feature, the user need to send details about the date they are going to Noonlight, then Noonlight will track the location of the user, if the user sense something suspicious he can click the panic button then Noonlight will send a text to the users phone and prompt the user to enter a code, if the user does not respond, Noonlight will call the user to confirm if the user need any help, if the user needs help or if the user doesn't pickup, Noonlight will send information to authorities, you need to download the Noonlight app separately to use this feature.
Tinder take this move because there are a number of instances where users who gone to dates with people they met on Tinder have found themselves in trouble some times even murdered or raped in some instances, Tinder wants to get rid of this bad remarks on their service.
Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group, told that
"You should run a dating business as if you are a mom," he said "I think a lot about safety, especially on our platforms, and what we can do to curtail bad behavior. There are a lot of things we tell users to do. But if we can provide tools on top of that, we should do that as well."
But using this feature comes with a privacy trade off, allowing an app to track your real time location and giving details about your date meeting and yourself means the apps can use it for many purposes since the feature is free to use, although Match group, the parent company of Tinder said that it won't access the information that will collected by Noonlight.
Gizmodo notes that Noonlight shares it's data with popular tech companies like Facebook and YouTube, generally these companies use this data to target users with personalized ads based on their preferences and interests.
Bennett Cyphers, an Electronic Frontier Foundation technologist, told Gizmodo,
"You know, it’s my job to be cynical about this stuff—and I still kinda got fooled," he said, "They’re marketing themselves as a safety tool, Smart is now safe are the first words that greet you on their website, The whole website is designed to make you feel like you’re gonna have someone looking out for you, that you can trust."
Know more about the privacy concerns on this feature pointed out by Gizmodo here.
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| Photo by Kon Karampelas on Unsplash In Order to use the Panic button you nee to separately install the Noonlight app. |
Tinder is an online dating app where you can find people of your interests and go on to a date with them, since you don't know your date personally or you haven't met them before, you will have no idea what can happen on that date that may will surprise you.
Tinder to protect it's users from dangerous dates, released a new panic button that one can use if they found themselves in a dangerous situation at a date, Tinder partnered with safety app Noonlight company to come up with this feature in their app.
To use this feature, the user need to send details about the date they are going to Noonlight, then Noonlight will track the location of the user, if the user sense something suspicious he can click the panic button then Noonlight will send a text to the users phone and prompt the user to enter a code, if the user does not respond, Noonlight will call the user to confirm if the user need any help, if the user needs help or if the user doesn't pickup, Noonlight will send information to authorities, you need to download the Noonlight app separately to use this feature.
Tinder take this move because there are a number of instances where users who gone to dates with people they met on Tinder have found themselves in trouble some times even murdered or raped in some instances, Tinder wants to get rid of this bad remarks on their service.
Mandy Ginsberg, CEO of Match Group, told that
"You should run a dating business as if you are a mom," he said "I think a lot about safety, especially on our platforms, and what we can do to curtail bad behavior. There are a lot of things we tell users to do. But if we can provide tools on top of that, we should do that as well."
But using this feature comes with a privacy trade off, allowing an app to track your real time location and giving details about your date meeting and yourself means the apps can use it for many purposes since the feature is free to use, although Match group, the parent company of Tinder said that it won't access the information that will collected by Noonlight.
Gizmodo notes that Noonlight shares it's data with popular tech companies like Facebook and YouTube, generally these companies use this data to target users with personalized ads based on their preferences and interests.
Bennett Cyphers, an Electronic Frontier Foundation technologist, told Gizmodo,
"You know, it’s my job to be cynical about this stuff—and I still kinda got fooled," he said, "They’re marketing themselves as a safety tool, Smart is now safe are the first words that greet you on their website, The whole website is designed to make you feel like you’re gonna have someone looking out for you, that you can trust."
Know more about the privacy concerns on this feature pointed out by Gizmodo here.
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