"The most insidious aspect is how these tools make peer-to-peer surveillance seem normal and acceptable,"
"Marketing them through viral TikTok videos trivializes the act of biometric surveillance and conditions people to accept it as a solution to relationship problems."
"They are agreeing to the platform's terms, not consenting to have their data scraped, indexed in a third-party database, and made searchable via their biometric data,"
Third-party services advertise the ability to locate dating profiles using facial recognition by searching with a name or a photo. Tests by 404 Media located consenting subjects' Tinder profiles, showing the searches can be accurate and sometimes cost about $18 per transaction. These searches provide no context for why profiles exist and risk misinterpretation. Privacy experts warn that such tools normalize peer-to-peer biometric surveillance, especially when marketed through viral social media, and that users uploading images to dating platforms did not consent to scraping, indexing, or searchable third-party biometric databases.
Read at The Verge
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