10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- UK Competition and Markets Authority Investigates Online Dating Agency – The case, outlined on GOV.UK, concerns potential unfair commercial practices and potential unfair contract terms.
- Interview: New Dating Opportunities as ExoClick Partner with TrafficMansion – ExoClick will monetize Traffic Mansion’s entire email inventory, with over 25,000 of TrafficMansion’s daily clicks now live on it’s network.
- Online Dating’s Move to Video Named A ‘Top Tech Trend 2017’ – Online dating apps moving to video has been named as one of Fortune’s top tech trends from this year.
- New Options for Female Grindr Profiles Come With Update – Women can now select “Woman” to describe themselves, as well as variations on this term for those who do not feel it (alone) is appropriate.
- Yale Privacy Lab Indentifies Trackers on Tinder and OKCupid – Trackers collect information on consumers, which can then be analysed and used to better target advertising.
- Paramount Pictures Set to Release Online Dating Thriller Movie – Gasp will be centred around several true stories of women who have been murdered by men they have met up with, after speaking online.
- Interview: GDI Meets the Founders of muzmatch – GDI recently sat down with founders Shahzad Younas and Ryan Brodie to learn more about the history and features of the app.
- Net Neutrality Changes may Impact LGBT Daters – The Trump administration’s proposed changes to net neutrality would impact the online experiences of LGBT individuals.
- Three Individuals Involved In International Romance Fraud Scheme Are Sentenced – The defendants participated in a scheme to defraud victims in the United States and Canada out of more than $12.9 million.
- New Podcast ‘The Swipe Hype’ Talks Current Dating Apps – The theme is to swap stories and to talk about making sense of the “contemporary dating culture.”
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