ACCESSWIRE – Unpack'd Technologies, the developer behind dating app DiHola for Hispanic and Latino singles, has partnered with online safety platforms RealMe and UrSafe to enhance user safety. The integrated safety features include ID verification, enhanced background checks, and various tools for personal safety both online and offline. These services will initially target DiHola's users in the U.S., Mexico, and Colombia, with a broader rollout across Latin America planned in the future.
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UrSafe App Launches LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces Feature for Enhanced Personal Safety
EIN PRESSWIRE – UrSafe Technologies has introduced a new feature, LGBTQ+ Safe Spaces, to its personal safety app, UrSafe. This global feature aims to empower and protect the LGBTQ+ community by offering a network of verified safe locations, like restaurants, bars, community centers, etc., that are supportive of LGBTQ+ individuals. The app also includes real-time updates, a panic button, and emergency services integration.
The RealMe and UrSafe Partner to Expand SOS Button Technology to Dating Platforms
EIN NEWS – The RealMe SOS button powered by the UrSafe app is the world's first hands-free, voice-activated personal safety tool. Features of the SOS Button include:
- It can be triggered anytime by a designated safe word.
- It provides an easy to use, handsfree lifeline in situations where users may feel unsafe using their phone.
- Using various safe words will trigger various responses, including calls to law enforcement, friends and family.
- Friends and family can view user's location in real time including a live video stream
- Security provided in over 195 countries
Seeking Cuts Sugar, Rebrands for Success-Minded
BUSINESSWIRE – Inspired by his own journey, wedding bells to ring as CEO Brandon Wade finds soulmate and legally waives his right to divorce. "Sugar dating" has taken on a negative, transactional connotation. Seeking will ditch the sugar to relaunch as the largest platform for like-minded individuals looking to date up and forge relationships on their own terms. CEO Brandon Wade has found his soulmate on his own site, and is now feeling empowered to help Seeking's more than 36m users find the match they desire. "When I started Seeking in 2006…I was arrogant and openly embraced non-monogamy… Everything changed when I met my soulmate Dana. The evolution of Seeking now reflects my personal journey." Seeking has partnered with UrSafe, FreedomLight and similar groups to make dating safer.
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Mark Brooks: Sugar datng is dead (…Apple/Android). Long live upscale dating.
Seeking.com Partners With UrSafe
PRESS RELEASE – Seeking.com, the world's largest upscale dating website, has added another feature to enhance members' safety via a $30M commitment to UrSafe, a premier hands-free, voice-activated personal safety app fully integrated with 911. As of Feb 1, 2022, everyone in the Seeking community will have access to a free 60-day trial. UrSafe app includes real-time location sharing as well as voice-activated safe words that immediately notify law enforcement, and friends and family, if the user feels endangered.
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Best Dating Apps in 2021
PCMAG – Since 1982, PCMag has tested and rated thousands of products to help people make better buying decisions. Here is the list of top 10 dating apps:
- Match
- Tinder
- Bumble
- Clover
- Hinge
- Kippo
- OKCupid
- eharmony
- Facebook Dating
- POF
All of these companies offer both iPhone apps and Android apps. Most also have desktop counterparts. The apps let people block and report users who haven't taken the hint. Bumble blurs nudes with AI. Tinder lets users secretly alert emergency services if they're on a bad date. There are even third-party solutions. UrSafe is a hands-free, voice-activated personal safety app with features for online daters who are looking to meet up with their matches in-person.
In case dating wasn't difficult enough, our social lives were upended by the COVID-19 epidemic. Bumble, Clover, eharmony, Hinge, Match, Plenty of Fish, and Tinder all offer video chat. Apps with more specific target audiences are also adopting this feature, including the mobile-only Muslim dating app Muzmatch. Snack introduces TikTok-style video functionality to dating profiles.
The Meet Group Launches Face Verification
"At the beginning of this year, I set forth our commitment to safer dating in 2020, addressing key issues affecting dating apps everywhere: Authenticity, Age Estimation, Device Blocking, and Textual Screening," said Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group. "With the launch of the Profile Verification Badge on MeetMe, we are…helping to ensure authenticity and end catfishing."
Other initiatives include using URSafe so members can stay connected in an emergency, collaborating with Microsoft on Project Artemis which uses common textual patterns and an age detection engine to prevent child exploitation, the introduction of a Safer Dating Advisory Board of epidemiologists and infectious disease experts to provide advice aimed at reducing the risk of contagion while dating, and implementing DeviceCheck to block bad actors' devices. See TMG's safety overview.
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Grindr Offers New Security Features in Partnership With UrSafe
Staying Safe in a New Era of Internet Dating: IDEA Webinar Video
OPW – July 23 – On 10th July we ran an IDEA Webinar with leaders of some tech-driven safety services. Here's the short summary video.
Online dating companies are in a unique position to adapt to social nuances, cultural changes and even global pandemics, through the effective application of advanced technologies. The overarching goal is to provide a safer and more fulfilling service to users, while combating fraud and romance scams. In the latest IDEA Webinar, Mark Brooks discusses the latest advances in technology-driven safety measures with Geoff Cook, CEO of The Meet Group, Anthony Oyogoa, CEO of The UrSafe App, Jeff Tinsley, CEO of RealMe, and Justin Davis, CEO of Spectrum Labs.
Here's the transcript, and the full video.
Email me at mark@courtlandbrooks.com if you'd like connects with anyone on this webinar.
UrSafe & The Meet Group Announce Partnership
PR NEWSWIRE – July 7 – MeetMe, Tagged, Skout, GROWLr and LOVOO users will receive a free 60-day subscription to UrSafe's premium safety Features. UrSafe is a hands-free, voice-activated personal safety app fully integrated with 911.