Tinder’s compulsory facial recognition control comes to the United States

Tinder tests the compulsory facial recognition security features in the United States to check the profiles and repress identity and false accounts. New users in California are now required to provide a biometric “facial verification” analysis to confirm that their face corresponds to their profile photos for the dating service, Axios reported on Monday.

The facial check function is to take a short video selfie that is used to match biometric indicators and prove that Tinder user is not a bot using artificially generated images, providing them with a checked badge at the end. The analysis will also verify whether the user’s face is used in several accounts, which could help prevent users from being unclean or to make their resemblance by deceived “catfish” profiles.

Facial control is separated from Tinder identification check functionwhich uses an identity document emitted by the government to verify the age and identity of the users, while the face apparently only checks users to download a selfie video. Tinder users have provided video selfies to Check their profiles since 2023But verification was not a compulsory requirement to create a Tinder account. This change means that Californians will have to complete a version of the verification if they want to use the platform.

“We see this as a part of a set of identity insurance options that are available for users,” said the manager of match confidence and security group, said Yoel Roth Axios. “Facial control … really aims to confirm that this person is a real living person and not a bot or a usurped account.”

Tinder says that the selfie video is deleted once the verification is completed, but that the platform stores a “non-reversible encrypted face card” to detect double user accounts in the future.

The face check function has already been piloted in Colombia and Canada, with Roth saying Axios The fact that these tests have shown “promising” results in “improving the perceptions of authenticity” and the reduction of bad actors’ relationships. According to Roth, Tinder will watch how users in California react to the facial control function before deciding if it should be deployed more widely in the United States.