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Bumble heightens safety measures with new ID verification feature

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Bumble is finally catching up with competitor Tinder with a new ID verification feature as dating app users urge for more safety measures. In addition to Bumble launched a new ID verification feature as dating app users urge for more safety measures.

Bumble is finally catching up with competitor Tinder with a new ID verification feature as dating app users urge for more safety measures. 

In addition to ID verification, the company also released three more features, including a feature that flags inappropriate messages in chat before users hit send and the ability to share date details with friends. Bumble also launched a “Discover” page dedicated to helping users find matches with similar interests.

Bumble’s new verification feature lets users submit a picture of a government-issued ID to authenticate their identity and earn a badge for their profile. This allows users to sort profiles according to those who are ID verified and also to ask their matches to complete the verification process.

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  • My now long standing belief is that dating apps should be nationalised. It makes so much sense from the point of running a state that it’s hard to argue against. Give people free Tinder and get free votes lol.

    • I would rather not have the state sit on a huge database of people’s sexual orientation and other preferences, thank you very much.

      • But they do sit on that database of sexual preferences already because they run the registry office. I want the state to know my blood type and other details because state is supposed to provide basic public services and infrastructure. But yeah, if your government is no longer accountable then that’s the priority always.

    • I'd much sooner see electricity and telecom nationalized. Dating apps are just a racket and unnecessary.

      • I agree in regards to priority obviously but imagine that you have a dating app that doesn’t exist to extract every last cent out of you and is ran by people who are graded by amount of successful matches. There’s a huge crisis of solitude among younger people and technology is not the only reason for it. It can help a bit though.

    • Nope Nope Nope. I do not want the government having that data. Knowing our governments, they will contract this to third parties who will almost certainly sell that data.

      I also do not want elected politicians having the power to shape relationships and sexuality of the population to that degree. Too much centralised power.

      • I know this is my most crackpot take and I usually ease people into the concept by listing increasingly novel business types that need to be nationalised :P

        I’m putting this in the air so that people can start thinking about what a modern services could be provided by a healthy social democratic system. If I can convince capitalists that nationalising card processing is beneficial to everyone then one day I’ll convince y’all Valve needs to be converted into a non-profit.

  • I mean, the UK just said they're starting to regulate it literally today, why is anyone surprised by this?

    Of course hooray bumble for... Being forced to implement it anyway?

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