MTCH News & Events

The Federal Trade Commission is taking action against OkCupid and its affiliate Match Group Americas over allegations OkCupid deceived users of its dating app by sharing their personal information, including photos and location information, with an unrelated third party, contrary to OkCupid's privacy promises, the agency announced. As part of a settlement, OkCupid, operated by Dallas-based Humor Rainbow, Inc., and Match Group Americas, which provides services for Humor Rainbow, will be prohibited from misrepresenting its privacy policies and could face monetary penalties for any future violations, the FTC stated.

Major technology and retail companies have signed the new "Industry Accord Against Online Scams & Fraud" ahead of the UN Global Fraud Summit, agreeing to share threat intelligence on how scammers are abusing their services, Sam Sabin of Axios reports. The agreement is meant to "set expectations for how signatories will work across online services to counter scammers" and "seeks to drive a united industry response... to combat fraud and scams," Axios says, citing a draft of the accord. Some of the companies who have signed the accord include Google (GOOGL), Microsoft (MSFT), LinkedIn, Meta (META), Amazon (AMZN), OpenAI, Adobe (ADBE), Pinterest (PINS), Target (TGT), Levi's Strauss (LEVI), and Match Group (MTCH).