Investigate Tinder and Grindr for their security and age control

Scaring data concerning some of today's biggest dating apps, Tinder and Grindr. In the United Kingdom, and since 2015, the police have been investigating more than thirty cases of child rape in which minors may have evaded the age controls of the aforementioned applications.

Tinder and Grindr, under State surveillance

The UK Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright says he is going to approach both of these dating apps to get both to report on the control they exercise overno minors may have access to them, and thus remain safe from any harm that may be caused to them.It also ensures that if the answer does not convince you, you will not hesitate to take more extreme measures.

The thing doesn't stop here. According to the Sunday Times publication, through sources that have not been revealed, there have been another sixty more cases of crimes against minors through this type of application, including recruiting, kidnapping and violent sexual assault. The youngest victim, according to the reporting source, was only 8 years old.

A week ago, The Guardian continues to report, a 28-year-old man was sentenced to two and a half years in jail for having spent the night with a 12-year-old girl who claimed to have 19. He contacted her through a dating app. The minor used a different name in the application registration, fraudulently stating that she was nineteen years old, seven years older than she actually was.

All this is happening at the same time that English society is acquiring more and more knowledge about the problems of suicide and self-harm among adolescents. There have already been demonstrations by the dating apps involved. Grindr, for example, ensures that any case of sexual abuse is worrying for them and that its developers are working to improve age identification tools. Tinder, in addition to ensuring that it is working on it, also holds users responsible and invites them to report any account that may belong to a minor