Tinder is testing compulsory facial security facilities in the US to verify the profiles in the US and to create a rift over fake accounts. New users in California need to provide a biometric “face check” scan so that their profile photo match for dating service to confirm their face, Axis Informed on Monday,
The face check feature involves taking a short video selfie, which is used to match biometric indicators and proves that Tinder user does not have a bot using artificially generated images, which offers them a verified badge when completion. The scan will also check whether the user’s face is being used in many accounts, which can help users to prevent misleading or prevent their similarity used by the misleading “catfish” profiles.
Is different from face check ID check feature of TinderWhich uses the ID issued by the government to verify the age and identity of users, while the face check appears that only users need to upload selfie videos. Tinder users have provided video selfies Verify their profiles from 2023But verification was not an essential requirement to create a tinder account. This change means that the people of California must complete some versions of verification if they want to use the platform.
“We see it as a part of a set of identity assurance options that are available to users,” said Joel Roth, head of the group’s trust and safety, said, “said,” Axis“Face check … is actually about confirming that this person is a real, living person and does not have a bot or a spoof account.”
Tinder says that the selfie video is removed once the verification is completed, but that the platform stores “non-recruitment, encrypted face map” to detect duplicate user accounts in the future.
The face check feature has already been piloted in Colombia and Canada, in which Roth is telling Axis Those tests showed as a result of the “promising” results “improving the perceptions of authenticity” and reducing the reports of bad actors. Tinder will now monitor how users in California according to Roth, before deciding, respond to the face check feature whether it should be rolled out more widely all over America.
