{"id":2795,"date":"2020-01-31T12:26:23","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T17:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/?p=2795"},"modified":"2020-01-31T12:28:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T17:28:47","slug":"are-dating-apps-allowing-in-registered-sex-offenders-a-house-subcommittee-is-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/are-dating-apps-allowing-in-registered-sex-offenders-a-house-subcommittee-is-investigating\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Dating Apps Allowing In Registered Sex Offenders? A House Subcommittee Is Investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"\"><tbody><tr><td><a href=\"https:\/\/floridaactioncommittee.org\/are-dating-apps-allowing-in-registered-sex-offenders-a-house-subcommittee-is-investigating\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Are Dating Apps Allowing In Registered Sex Offenders? A House Subcommittee Is&nbsp;Investigating<\/a>by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/floridaactioncommittee.org\/?author=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Florida Action Committee<\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com and OkCupid, are the current targets of the investigation by the U.S. House Oversight and Reform subcommittee on economic and consumer policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In separate letters Thursday to the companies, the subcommittee is seeking information on users\u2019 ages, procedures for verifying ages, and any complaints about assaults, rape or the use of the services by minors. It is also asking for the services\u2019 privacy policies and details on what users see when they review and agree to the policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Although the minimum age for using internet services is typically 13 in the U.S., dating services generally require users to be at least 18 because of concerns about sexual predators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5774839\/dating-app-sex-offenders-house-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SOURCE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are Dating Apps Allowing In Registered Sex Offenders? A House Subcommittee Is&nbsp;Investigatingby&nbsp;Florida Action Committee A House subcommittee is investigating popular dating services such as Tinder and Bumble for allegedly allowing minors and sex offenders to use their services. Bumble, Grindr, The Meet Group and the Match Group, which owns such popular services as Tinder, Match.com [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sex-offender-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2796,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2795\/revisions\/2796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sexoffenderonestopresource.com\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}