{ "metadata": { "title": "Global Dating Safety Rules & Response Map 2026", "shortTitle": "Global Dating Safety Map", "edition": "First edition", "version": "1.0.1", "snapshotDate": "2026-07-24", "snapshotLabel": "24 July 2026", "datePublished": "2026-07-24", "dateModified": "2026-07-24", "url": "https://realattraction.today/insights/global-dating-safety-rules-response-map/", "citation": "RealAttraction Research. Global Dating Safety Rules & Response Map 2026. First edition, public-source snapshot 24 July 2026.", "licenseName": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International", "licenseUrl": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/", "scope": "Seven jurisdictions, twelve dating and matchmaking products, and nine user-response controls.", "aiUseDisclosure": "AI tools helped organise source material, compare repeated fields, and prepare draft summaries. Published entries remain tied to the linked public source. AI output is not treated as evidence, a legal interpretation, or an independent source. This map has not been reviewed by a lawyer.", "platformSelectionMethod": "The set combines mainstream products with representative services serving distinct dating contexts, including LGBTQ+, faith and marriage, non-traditional relationships, and explicit relationship expectations. A product needed an accessible public safety or help page that could be coded under the same topic definitions. This is a selected source set, not a complete market census.", "independenceDisclosure": "RealAttraction.today received no payment, affiliate commission, or other consideration for inclusion. No dating product reviewed this analysis before publication or influenced the coding. Inclusion is not an endorsement, and omission is not a criticism.", "sourceLinkPurpose": "Product links go to the specific public safety or help page reviewed so readers can check the coding. They are citations, not sign-up or recommendation links. The report does not use product logos, prices, or download calls to action." }, "statusLegend": [ { "id": "law", "label": "Binding rule", "shortLabel": "Binding", "meaning": "A law, statutory duty, or enforceable regulatory requirement in the reviewed source." }, { "id": "code", "label": "Industry code", "shortLabel": "Code", "meaning": "A dating-specific industry code with its own oversight, but not the same legal force as legislation." }, { "id": "guidance", "label": "Official guidance", "shortLabel": "Guidance", "meaning": "Advice or a reporting route from a government, regulator, or public authority." }, { "id": "proposal", "label": "Proposal", "shortLabel": "Proposed", "meaning": "A bill, consultation, or implementation step that should not be described as current law." }, { "id": "not-found", "label": "Not located", "shortLabel": "Not located", "meaning": "No dating-specific requirement was located in the reviewed official source set. This is not proof that no relevant law exists." } ], "controlDimensions": [ { "id": "user-reporting", "label": "User reporting", "question": "Is there a stated route for a user to report harmful or illegal content?" }, { "id": "decision-notice", "label": "Decision notice", "question": "Must a user be told what happened after a report or moderation decision?" }, { "id": "appeal", "label": "Appeal", "question": "Is there a stated route to challenge a platform decision?" }, { "id": "banned-account-notice", "label": "Banned-account notice", "question": "Must past contacts be warned after an account is removed for suspected fraud?" }, { "id": "cross-service-action", "label": "Cross-service action", "question": "Does the reviewed framework require action across related services or accounts?" }, { "id": "intimate-image-response", "label": "Intimate-image response", "question": "Is there a route or duty for non-consensual intimate images, threats, or synthetic intimate content?" }, { "id": "transparency", "label": "Transparency", "question": "Are platforms expected to publish or explain safety, moderation, or compliance information?" }, { "id": "preventive-guidance", "label": "Preventive guidance", "question": "Does an official source give dating-specific advice before harm occurs?" }, { "id": "age-or-identity", "label": "Age or identity controls", "question": "Does the reviewed framework address age assurance or identity-related checks?" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "us-ftc-dating", "jurisdiction": "United States", "publisher": "Federal Trade Commission", "title": "Online Dating", "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/online-dating", "sourceType": "Official guidance and enforcement hub", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "us-romance-bill", "jurisdiction": "United States", "publisher": "Congress.gov", "title": "S.841 — Romance Scam Prevention Act", "url": "https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/841/all-info", "sourceType": "Federal bill; status: introduced", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "us-tida", "jurisdiction": "United States", "publisher": "Federal Trade Commission", "title": "TAKE IT DOWN Act enforcement", "url": "https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2026/05/take-it-down-act-enforcement-starts-now-what-know-about-ftc-tida", "sourceType": "Federal law and enforcement guidance", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "uk-ofcom-dating", "jurisdiction": "United Kingdom", "publisher": "Ofcom", "title": "Dating and social discovery: risks, rules and compliance", "url": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/dating-and-social-discovery-know-the-online-safety-risks-rules-and-how-to-comply", "sourceType": "Regulator guidance on binding duties", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "uk-ofcom-duties", "jurisdiction": "United Kingdom", "publisher": "Ofcom", "title": "Illegal content duties under the Online Safety Act", "url": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/illegal-content-duties-under-the-online-safety-act", "sourceType": "Regulator guidance on binding duties", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "eu-dsa-report", "jurisdiction": "European Union / EEA", "publisher": "European Commission", "title": "Fighting online scams with the DSA notice-and-action mechanism", "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-notice-and-action-mechanism", "sourceType": "Official explanation of binding DSA rights", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "eu-dsa-transparency", "jurisdiction": "European Union / EEA", "publisher": "European Commission", "title": "How the Digital Services Act brings transparency", "url": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-brings-transparency", "sourceType": "Official explanation of binding DSA duties", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "au-esafety-dating", "jurisdiction": "Australia", "publisher": "eSafety Commissioner", "title": "Online dating", "url": "https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/staying-safe/online-dating", "sourceType": "Official safety guidance and reporting routes", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "au-dating-code", "jurisdiction": "Australia", "publisher": "Australia Online Dating Code of Conduct", "title": "Voluntary Online Dating Code", "url": "https://www.australianonlinedatingcode.com.au/about-the-code/", "sourceType": "Voluntary industry code", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "ca-competition", "jurisdiction": "Canada", "publisher": "Competition Bureau Canada", "title": "Online dating — know what you're signing up for", "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/competition-bureau/news/2019/02/online-dating--know-what-youre-signing-up-for.html", "sourceType": "Official consumer guidance", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "ca-privacy", "jurisdiction": "Canada", "publisher": "Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada", "title": "PIPEDA investigation into a dating website", "url": "https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2013/pipeda-2013-003/", "sourceType": "Privacy-law investigation", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "ca-bill-c34", "jurisdiction": "Canada", "publisher": "Canadian Heritage", "title": "Proposed Online Harms Act", "url": "https://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/services/safe-social-media-act.html", "sourceType": "Legislative proposal", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "in-it-rules", "jurisdiction": "India", "publisher": "Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology", "title": "Information Technology Rules and amendments", "url": "https://www.meity.gov.in/documents/act-and-policies", "sourceType": "Binding intermediary and data-protection rules", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "in-dpdp", "jurisdiction": "India", "publisher": "Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology", "title": "Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025", "url": "https://www.meity.gov.in/documents/act-and-policies/digital-personal-data-protection-rules-2025-gDOxUjMtQWa", "sourceType": "Binding data-protection rules", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "in-cybercrime", "jurisdiction": "India", "publisher": "Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre", "title": "National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal", "url": "https://cybercrime.gov.in/", "sourceType": "Official reporting route", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "br-anpd-marco", "jurisdiction": "Brazil", "publisher": "Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados", "title": "Marco Civil da Internet — 2026 platform duties and implementation", "url": "https://www.gov.br/anpd/pt-br/assuntos/marco-civil-da-internet", "sourceType": "Official regulator implementation page", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" }, { "id": "br-digital-violence", "jurisdiction": "Brazil", "publisher": "Ministry of Justice and Public Security", "title": "Rules protecting women online and addressing digital violence", "url": "https://www.gov.br/mj/pt-br/assuntos/noticias-1/entram-em-vigor-diretrizes-de-protecao-as-mulheres-na-internet-e-de-enfrentamento-da-violencia-em-ambiente-digital", "sourceType": "Official explanation of 2026 rules", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24" } ], "jurisdictions": [ { "id": "us", "name": "United States", "shortName": "United States", "summary": "Federal consumer-protection enforcement and reporting guidance are active. A dating-specific notification bill remains a proposal, while the TAKE IT DOWN Act creates a separate intimate-image removal framework for covered platforms.", "primaryRoute": "ReportFraud.ftc.gov for fraud; the FTC TAKE IT DOWN route for covered intimate-image removal failures.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://reportfraud.ftc.gov/", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "us-ftc-dating" ], "note": "The FTC provides a federal fraud-reporting route and dating-scam guidance; this is not a dating-platform complaint appeal." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "proposal", "sourceIds": [ "us-romance-bill" ], "note": "S.841 proposes notices connected to certain banned members. Congress.gov still lists the bill as introduced." }, "appeal": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "us-ftc-dating" ], "note": "No general dating-platform appeal right was located in the reviewed federal sources." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "proposal", "sourceIds": [ "us-romance-bill" ], "note": "The Romance Scam Prevention Act proposal would address notices after certain fraud-related account removals; it is not current law." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "us-ftc-dating" ], "note": "No general cross-service dating-account action duty was located in the reviewed federal sources." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "us-tida" ], "note": "The TAKE IT DOWN Act establishes a notice-and-removal framework for covered non-consensual intimate depictions, including certain synthetic content." }, "transparency": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "us-ftc-dating" ], "note": "No dating-specific federal transparency-report duty was located in the reviewed source set." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "us-ftc-dating" ], "note": "The FTC publishes dating and romance-scam warnings, complaint data, and reporting guidance." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "us-ftc-dating" ], "note": "No nationwide dating-specific age or identity-verification rule was located in this federal source set." } } }, { "id": "uk", "name": "United Kingdom", "shortName": "United Kingdom", "summary": "The Online Safety Act places illegal-content risk, reporting, complaints, record-keeping, and age-assurance duties on in-scope services. Ofcom publishes dating-specific guidance on how those duties apply.", "primaryRoute": "Use the service complaint route first; Ofcom explains duties but does not resolve every individual content complaint.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/dating-and-social-discovery-know-the-online-safety-risks-rules-and-how-to-comply", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-dating", "uk-ofcom-duties" ], "note": "In-scope services need a complaints tool for illegal or harmful material and a process for dealing with complaints." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-duties" ], "note": "Complaints duties require clear processes and responses in defined circumstances; the exact duty depends on service and complaint type." }, "appeal": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-duties" ], "note": "The Act's complaints framework covers challenges to certain content and account decisions for in-scope services." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-dating" ], "note": "No dating-specific duty to warn a removed account's past matches was located in the reviewed Ofcom material." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-dating" ], "note": "No general duty to remove a person across separate dating products was located in the reviewed source set." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-dating", "uk-ofcom-duties" ], "note": "Illegal-content duties cover relevant intimate-image abuse and sextortion risks on in-scope services." }, "transparency": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-duties" ], "note": "In-scope services have record-keeping, terms, risk-assessment, and transparency duties that vary by service category." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-dating" ], "note": "Ofcom publishes a dating-specific risk and compliance guide for services." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "uk-ofcom-dating" ], "note": "Dating services that permit pornographic content must use highly effective age assurance to prevent under-18 access." } } }, { "id": "eu", "name": "European Union / EEA", "shortName": "EU / EEA", "summary": "The Digital Services Act creates a notice-and-action route, outcome notices, internal complaints, independent dispute settlement, and transparency duties for covered online platforms. It is not a dating-specific safety code.", "primaryRoute": "Use the platform's DSA notice-and-action route; unresolved systemic problems can be raised with the national Digital Services Coordinator.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-notice-and-action-mechanism", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "Online platforms must provide a simple notice-and-action mechanism for potentially illegal content." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "A notifier must receive confirmation and the platform's final outcome." }, "appeal": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "Users can use an internal complaint process or a certified out-of-court dispute body for covered decisions." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "No dating-specific rule to notify a removed account's former matches was located in the reviewed DSA material." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "The reviewed DSA source does not create a general cross-product dating-account ban." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "The notice-and-action process applies to potentially illegal content, including content illegal under applicable intimate-image laws." }, "transparency": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-transparency" ], "note": "The DSA creates transparency obligations around moderation decisions, reports, advertising, and recommender systems." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-report" ], "note": "The Commission explains how to report scams and distinguish the DSA route from ordinary terms-of-service reporting." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "eu-dsa-transparency" ], "note": "The DSA includes child-protection and design duties, but this review did not code a dating-specific identity-verification requirement." } } }, { "id": "au", "name": "Australia", "shortName": "Australia", "summary": "Australia combines eSafety reporting powers and preventive guidance with a dating-specific voluntary industry code. The code has independent industry oversight, but eSafety states that it does not enforce the code.", "primaryRoute": "Report to the dating service first; eSafety accepts eligible adult cyber-abuse, image-based abuse, and illegal-content reports.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://www.esafety.gov.au/key-topics/staying-safe/online-dating", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "code", "sourceIds": [ "au-esafety-dating", "au-dating-code" ], "note": "Code participants must maintain reporting systems; separate eSafety routes cover eligible serious online harms." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "code", "sourceIds": [ "au-dating-code" ], "note": "The code sets complaint and accountability expectations, but it is not equivalent to a statutory outcome-notice right." }, "appeal": { "status": "code", "sourceIds": [ "au-esafety-dating", "au-dating-code" ], "note": "Potential code breaches can be raised with the independent Code Compliance Committee." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "au-dating-code" ], "note": "No universal past-match notification duty was coded from the reviewed public code summary." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "au-dating-code" ], "note": "No universal cross-product removal duty was coded from the reviewed public code summary." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "au-esafety-dating" ], "note": "eSafety provides a statutory reporting route for image-based abuse and other eligible online harms." }, "transparency": { "status": "code", "sourceIds": [ "au-esafety-dating", "au-dating-code" ], "note": "Code participants publish self-assessed compliance ratings and are accountable to an industry-formed committee." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "au-esafety-dating" ], "note": "eSafety publishes detailed advice for choosing a service, chatting, meeting, reporting, and getting support." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "au-esafety-dating" ], "note": "Separate online-safety standards and child-protection duties apply; the voluntary dating code also addresses platform safeguards." } } }, { "id": "ca", "name": "Canada", "shortName": "Canada", "summary": "Canada's current reviewed sources are mainly consumer-protection and privacy frameworks rather than a dating-specific online-safety regime. The proposed Online Harms Act is kept separate from rules already in force.", "primaryRoute": "Use the platform route; fraud can be reported to the Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre and privacy complaints to the relevant privacy authority.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://antifraudcentre-centreantifraude.ca/report-signalez-eng.htm", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "ca-competition" ], "note": "Official consumer guidance points users toward complaint and fraud-reporting routes; no dating-specific platform mechanism is mandated in this source." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "ca-privacy" ], "note": "No general dating-platform moderation outcome-notice right was located in the reviewed current sources." }, "appeal": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "ca-privacy" ], "note": "Privacy complaints have regulator routes, but that is not a general appeal from dating-app moderation." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "ca-competition" ], "note": "No dating-specific past-match warning duty was located in the reviewed source set." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "ca-competition" ], "note": "No general cross-service dating-account action duty was located." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "ca-bill-c34" ], "note": "Criminal and provincial routes may apply, but the reviewed federal online-harms proposal is not coded as current law." }, "transparency": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "ca-privacy" ], "note": "PIPEDA privacy accountability and meaningful-consent duties can apply to dating services; this is not a public safety-report requirement." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "ca-competition" ], "note": "The Competition Bureau publishes dating-subscription, identity, and consumer-protection advice." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "ca-privacy" ], "note": "No nationwide dating-specific verification rule was located in the reviewed source set." } } }, { "id": "in", "name": "India", "shortName": "India", "summary": "India's intermediary, grievance, cybercrime-reporting, and data-protection rules can apply to dating services, but the reviewed national sources do not form a dating-specific safety code.", "primaryRoute": "Use the platform grievance contact; cyber-enabled crime can be reported through the National Cyber Crime Reporting Portal.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://cybercrime.gov.in/", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules", "in-cybercrime" ], "note": "Intermediaries must publish grievance contacts and processes; the national cybercrime portal is a separate government reporting route." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules" ], "note": "The grievance framework sets acknowledgement and resolution duties, subject to service classification and complaint type." }, "appeal": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules" ], "note": "The IT Rules provide a Grievance Appellate Committee route for covered intermediary grievances." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules" ], "note": "No dating-specific duty to warn a removed account's past contacts was located." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules" ], "note": "No general cross-product dating-account removal duty was located." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules", "in-cybercrime" ], "note": "The intermediary grievance framework includes accelerated handling for certain intimate or impersonation content; criminal reports use the cybercrime portal." }, "transparency": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "in-it-rules", "in-dpdp" ], "note": "Covered intermediaries and data fiduciaries have notice, grievance, and reporting duties that vary by classification." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "in-cybercrime" ], "note": "Government cybercrime resources provide reporting and prevention information, though not a complete dating-specific guide." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "in-dpdp" ], "note": "The DPDP framework includes rules for children's personal data; it does not make a dating badge proof of identity or safety." } } }, { "id": "br", "name": "Brazil", "shortName": "Brazil", "summary": "Brazil's 2026 platform framework gives the ANPD systemic oversight of provider reporting channels, risk prevention, transparency, digital fraud, and digital violence. Implementation is still being phased in.", "primaryRoute": "Use the platform reporting channel; the ANPD is updating channels for systemic platform-duty and digital-violence complaints.", "primaryRouteUrl": "https://www.gov.br/anpd/pt-br/assuntos/marco-civil-da-internet", "controls": { "user-reporting": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "The 2026 framework addresses provider reporting channels and handling systems; ANPD oversight is systemic rather than a substitute for every content complaint." }, "decision-notice": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "Provider duties include complaint handling and user rights, while detailed implementation is still developing." }, "appeal": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "No dating-specific moderation appeal was coded from the reviewed implementation page." }, "banned-account-notice": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "No dating-specific duty to notify past contacts of a banned account was located." }, "cross-service-action": { "status": "not-found", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "No general cross-service dating-account removal rule was located." }, "intimate-image-response": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "br-digital-violence", "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "The 2026 framework specifically addresses digital violence and intimate content, including manipulated intimate content." }, "transparency": { "status": "law", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "ANPD oversight covers governance, transparency, risk prevention, reporting channels, and systemic provider duties." }, "preventive-guidance": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco", "br-digital-violence" ], "note": "Official implementation material explains provider duties and digital-violence protections; it is not a dating-specific user guide." }, "age-or-identity": { "status": "guidance", "sourceIds": [ "br-anpd-marco" ], "note": "Child and adolescent online protections exist in related frameworks; no dating-specific identity check was coded here." } } } ], "platformTopics": [ { "id": "report-support", "label": "Report or support" }, { "id": "off-app", "label": "Moving off-app" }, { "id": "money", "label": "Money or investment" }, { "id": "privacy", "label": "Privacy and personal data" }, { "id": "meeting", "label": "First meeting" }, { "id": "verification", "label": "Verification or identity checks" }, { "id": "intimate-images", "label": "Intimate images or consent" }, { "id": "location", "label": "Location or device exposure" }, { "id": "relationship-context", "label": "Community or relationship context" } ], "platforms": [ { "id": "tinder", "name": "Tinder", "context": "Mainstream dating", "sourceLabel": "Safety Tips", "sourceUrl": "https://tinder.com/safety-tips/", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "intimate-images", "location" ], "note": "The current public page covers in-app communication, personal details, meeting plans, reporting, verification features, consent, and orientation privacy in some regions." }, { "id": "bumble", "name": "Bumble", "context": "Mainstream dating and social connection", "sourceLabel": "Bumble Safety Center", "sourceUrl": "https://safety.bumble.com/en_US", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "intimate-images" ], "note": "The Safety Center presents reporting, identity, private-image, in-app calling, and date-sharing tools. It describes features, not proof that a person is safe." }, { "id": "hinge", "name": "Hinge", "context": "Relationship-focused dating", "sourceLabel": "Safe Dating Advice", "sourceUrl": "https://help.hinge.co/hc/en-us/articles/360007194774-Safe-Dating-Advice", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "intimate-images" ], "note": "The guide emphasizes staying in control of communication, refusing financial requests, protecting details, reporting, planning the first meeting, and consent." }, { "id": "match", "name": "Match", "context": "Relationship-focused dating", "sourceLabel": "Dating Safety Tips", "sourceUrl": "https://help.match.com/hc/en-us/articles/6991442293787-Dating-Safety-Tips", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "verification" ], "note": "The source covers profile caution, off-app communication, money, personal information, reporting, and independent first-meeting plans." }, { "id": "cmb", "name": "Coffee Meets Bagel", "context": "Relationship-focused dating", "sourceLabel": "Dating Safety Tips", "sourceUrl": "https://coffeemeetsbagel.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4407351975699-Dating-Safety-Tips", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting" ], "note": "The public advice focuses on keeping contact manageable, avoiding financial requests, protecting personal information, meeting publicly, and reporting concerns." }, { "id": "grindr", "name": "Grindr", "context": "LGBTQ+ dating and connection", "sourceLabel": "Safety & Privacy resources", "sourceUrl": "https://help.grindr.com/hc/en-us/sections/1500001729362-Safety", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "intimate-images", "location", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The source set adds location, device, outing, sexual-health, consent, and identity-context risks that broad first-date advice can miss." }, { "id": "muzz", "name": "Muzz", "context": "Muslim dating and marriage", "sourceLabel": "Safety Guidelines", "sourceUrl": "https://muzz.com/us/en/safety/guidelines/", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The source covers reporting, staying on-app, privacy, money, public meeting plans, independent transport, and halal meeting context." }, { "id": "shaadi", "name": "Shaadi.com", "context": "South Asian matrimony", "sourceLabel": "Privacy and safety tips", "sourceUrl": "https://www.shaadi.com/info/customer-relations/faq/privacy-tips", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The public guidance addresses matrimony-specific identity, family, financial, privacy, meeting, and reporting decisions." }, { "id": "feeld", "name": "Feeld", "context": "Open-minded and non-traditional relationships", "sourceLabel": "Trust & Safety", "sourceUrl": "https://feeld.co/the-app/trust-and-safety", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "money", "privacy", "verification", "intimate-images", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The page links fraud and sextortion guidance and presents privacy, verification, unwanted-image controls, consent, boundaries, and inclusive relationship contexts." }, { "id": "salams", "name": "Salams", "context": "Muslim dating and marriage", "sourceLabel": "Safety", "sourceUrl": "https://www.salams.app/safety", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The source covers personal information, meeting, financial boundaries, reporting, verification, and faith- and marriage-aware context." }, { "id": "seeking", "name": "Seeking", "context": "Dating with explicit relationship expectations", "sourceLabel": "Dating Safely", "sourceUrl": "https://www.seeking.com/dating-safely", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "verification", "intimate-images", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The source directly addresses money, coercion, privacy, verification, first meetings, consent, and clear relationship expectations." }, { "id": "eharmony", "name": "eharmony", "context": "Relationship-focused dating", "sourceLabel": "Online Dating Safety", "sourceUrl": "https://www.eharmony.com/dating-advice/dating/online-dating-safety/", "lastChecked": "2026-07-24", "topics": [ "report-support", "off-app", "money", "privacy", "meeting", "intimate-images", "relationship-context" ], "note": "The guide covers in-app communication, personal and financial information, reporting, first meetings, consent, boundaries, and relationship-focused context." } ], "crosswalk": [ { "moment": "Someone asks you to leave the app quickly", "officialLayer": "Regulators and consumer agencies repeatedly treat loss of platform controls and evidence as a practical risk.", "platformLayer": "Several reviewed platform guides advise slowing down before moving to text, WhatsApp, Telegram, email, or another service.", "checkLayer": "The Check asks whether the move is urgent, secret, or tied to pressure—not whether one app is always safe.", "anchor": "off-app" }, { "moment": "Someone asks for money, crypto, gift cards, or an investment", "officialLayer": "Official fraud guidance gives this a separate reporting and recovery context.", "platformLayer": "Money requests appear across mainstream, relationship-focused, community-specific, and matrimony guidance.", "checkLayer": "The Check separates the request, urgency, payment method, and ability to pause before anything is sent.", "anchor": "money" }, { "moment": "Someone asks for a private image or identity detail", "officialLayer": "Several jurisdictions provide distinct routes for intimate-image abuse, impersonation, privacy, or cybercrime.", "platformLayer": "Consent, privacy, device exposure, and reporting are unevenly covered across products.", "checkLayer": "The Check never asks for the image or document. It asks what was requested and points to the relevant response route.", "anchor": "privacy" }, { "moment": "A first meeting is being arranged", "officialLayer": "Preventive guidance stresses an independent venue, transport, communication plan, and exit route.", "platformLayer": "First-meeting planning is one of the most repeated public guidance topics.", "checkLayer": "The Check focuses on venue, cost, transport, pressure, privacy, and whether the plan can be changed without conflict.", "anchor": "meeting" }, { "moment": "A profile has a badge, ID check, or video call", "officialLayer": "Age, identity, privacy, and child-protection duties differ by jurisdiction and do not create one universal proof standard.", "platformLayer": "Products describe different checks; the public pages do not support treating every badge as proof of honesty or future behaviour.", "checkLayer": "The Check treats verification as one narrow signal and asks what the situation still requires you to decide.", "anchor": "verification" } ], "changeLog": [ { "date": "2026-07-24", "version": "1.0.1", "changes": [ "Published the product-source selection method and limits.", "Added a no-payment, no-affiliate, no-pre-publication-review, and no-coding-influence disclosure.", "Relabelled product links as official sources reviewed rather than recommendation links.", "Clarified that inclusion and omission are not safety judgments." ] }, { "date": "2026-07-24", "version": "1.0.0", "changes": [ "Published the first seven-jurisdiction control map.", "Added a twelve-product public-guidance comparison.", "Separated binding rules, industry codes, official guidance, proposals, and items not located.", "Added machine-readable JSON and CSV distributions, an SVG chart, a PDF edition, and citation wording.", "Published an AI-use disclosure covering source organisation, drafting, evidence limits, and legal-review limits." ] } ] }