Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., is sponsoring legislation impacting internet dating services. (Picture: Carolyn Kaster, AP)
Change might be arriving at the quickly growing industry that is dating concern mounts in regards to the privacy and security of all of the online and mobile users.
Sen. Al Franken, D-Minn., introduced legislation Thursday companies that are requiring get clients' authorization before gathering location information off their cellular devices and sharing it with other people.
It is a move that could greatly impact websites that are dating apps. The focus no longer is just on daters leery of scams or sexual predators, but on keeping their locations confidential as mobile dating proliferates.
"these things is advancing at a quicker and faster rate, therefore we've got to attempt to get caught up, " Franken claims. "that is about People in the us' straight to privacy and something of the very personal things is where you are. "
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