PR NEWSWIRE -- Jan 14 -- TRUE.com congratulates New Jersey legislators for yesterday enacting the nation's first online dating legislation. The Internet Dating Safety Act (Senate Bill-1977/A4304) requires online dating services to disclose their criminal background screening practices and to offer safer dating tips on their sites. When registering for membership on TRUE, all users must represent that they have not been convicted of a felony or of a sexual offense and that they are not married.
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Mark Brooks: Your comments please...
Of course they do, they basically wrote and funded the bill. Interesting that Vest says background checks will not stop felons right in the press release.
Posted by: David Evans | Jan 16, 2008 at 09:11 AM
Problem here is they claim they check for felons but the do nothing whatsoever about the Nigerian scammers that they allow on their site.
A simple IP check on all new members would and could put a stop to this or at least cut it down.
But TRUE.COM does not seem to mind that hundreds of thousands of American men and women are being scammed out of their hard earned living......
Seeing as there are less felon's on their site than scammers,why bother.
Posted by: Carol Lee | Jan 16, 2008 at 12:11 PM
Does anyone know if this affects free sites?
Posted by: Jon Coward (interracialoasis.com) | Jan 16, 2008 at 12:35 PM
They tried this in other states, Florida and Michigan I think? Those legislators seemingly figured out that pandering to TRUE.com made them look ridiculous, or perhaps the kickback wasn't high enough.
Isn't NJ where The Sopranos was set? Loved that show.
I'm lazy... Mark Brooks, can you post/link to the actual legislation?
Posted by: Steve Bywater | Jan 16, 2008 at 01:00 PM
Even if True bought and sold the legislation, I still agree. I think online dating companies should disclose their background screening process. But then I'm a love coach, not an online dating company. And I also didn't read the actual law... so I'll refrain from talking details. :-)
How does legislation in one state affect internet business practices? Does it only apply to companies based in NJ? I'm not quite sure if this does anything except tell other legislators that this is a good idea.
Mark E Berry
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Posted by: Mark Berry | Jan 16, 2008 at 06:37 PM