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Hinge Will Try To Thwart Scammers With Video Verification

  • October 29, 2022
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Match Group, which operates one of the world’s largest portfolios of dating apps, will soon add a new profile verification feature to its popular dating app Hinge. The feature is part of a larger effort to crack down on scammers who use fake photos and purport to be people they’re not on the app, often with the intent of eventually scheming romantic conquests out of money. Jarryd Boyd, director of brand communications for Hinge, said that Hinge will begin rolling out the feature, named Selfie Verification, next month. Hinge will ask users to take a video selfie within the app in order to confirm they’re a real person and not a digital fake. Match Group then plans to use a combination of machine learning technology and human moderators to “compare facial geometries from the video selfie to photos on the user’s profile,” Boyd said. Full Story

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    • October 29, 2022

    Wow, this is very interesting. I can’t help buy wonder if they will loose a good number of their members because of this? Sometimes the best plans can backfire terribly. 

    True story, I used to run product development for a security company that did app hardening (think anti tamper) and it was a good enough product that the government used it. 

    We “protected” an app for a company that had many users hacking the low cost, less features version to make it the expensive, full feature version. (Seems it was the same program with code to turn off features if you did not pay.) After we added the protection, their sales of the low cost version went into the toilet. They asked us to remove our protection. The said that the cheaper version stopped selling almost completely, (because it could no longer be hacked it seems) and those customers were not going for the more expensive version because of cost. 

    So be curious to see if Match Group looses a lot of members who just do not want to put a video of themselves up in the app. And what is to stop people from making realistic fakes of someone else? We know it can be done today on a home PC. 

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