"The skill of the harm is too large and the fact that you can just sign up with an email address ... is too easy," she says. "You're also going to have predators that are going to find ways around a lot of these things." In Australia, bumble changed its system such that if somebody unmatches you, their information doesn't immediately disappear on your end.
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Dating apps combine many controversial concepts: technology, sex, societal change, economic intrigue . . . and the law. We are in the early stages of understanding how dating apps are affecting the way people interact. Our legal system is just now grappling with how to deal with bad actors in a world where accountability is scarce. To lay the ground work on these concepts is Irina Manta.
IRINA D. MANTA is a Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Center for Intellectual Property Law (CIPL) at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University. Professor Manta’s research spans legal issues involving intellectual property, torts, the Internet, privacy, national security, and immigration. A graduate of Yale Law School and Yale University, she co-hosts the dating podcast “Strangers on the Internet“.
Dating apps- what is the problem?
A quick survey of the dating app scene: Hinge, Tinder, Bumble, Facebook?
Bad incentives that apps send especially to men: Technology and Incel culture . . . and scale
Legal problems – contract law, misrepresentation, privacy, torts etc . . . overlay of digital record-keeping on traditionally human interaction
Introducing accountability into the world of digital dating
Legal and extralegal measures (including cultural changes) need to be put in place.
Why hasn’t the free market solved some of these issues?
What are the collective action problems involved?
How (or who) should regulate this?
How does this drive a law professor to write a book and have a podcast around this?
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