10 Stories Not To Miss On GDI This Week
- Tinder’s Chief Product Officer, Facebook & Paktor Will Speak At GDI London Conference – Buy Tickets Now – Tinder, Facebook and Paktor will all speak at the next GDI London conference this September.
- OkCupid Adds Photo Comment Feature – Users of OkCupid can now comment on each other’s pictures on the dating platform.
- Both Marriage & Divorce Rates For Over-65s Are Increasing – New data shows that although the rate of marriage among older people is growing, so too is the rate of divorce.
- Plenty of Fish’s New Spark Feature Helps Users Start Conversations – Plenty of Fish has just launched a new conversation-orientated feature called Spark.
- Nearly 90,000 Sex Bots Invade Twitter In Huge Adult Dating & Porn Spam Campaign – The spam campaign was first spotted by digital security company ZeroFOX, who looked into the massive pornography botnet that was targeting the social media network.
- Tinder Brings A Stories-Style Design Change To Photo Browsing – Tinder is taking inspiration from Snapchat and Instagram with its new design update.
- Labour MP Will Call For Law Against Catfishing In Parliament Today – The proposed action would make it an offence to steal someone’s identity and pose as them to lure people into sexual contact.
- Warnings New UK Government Plans To Require Age Verification On Porn Sites Could Lead To Ashley Madison-Style Hacks – The UK government has announced plans that will require people accessing porn sites in the UK to verify their age.
- 46% Of Women Have Been Sexually Victimised On Social Media – A new anonymous study has found that almost half of women said they have been sexually victimised on social media.
- Ashley Madison Offers $11.2m Settlement To People Suing Site Over Data Breach – Ashley Madison has offered a settlement to the people suing the site over its 2015 data breach.
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