The famous dating website, Match.com, gave an official statement on Sunday, announcing that it has decided to start cross checking its large user’s database for any national sex offender registry identification. This decision has come very soon after a court case was filed against the company which reported a women being assaulted by someone who she trustfully met from the services of the dating website.
The president of this website, Mandy Ginsberg, informed The Associated Press via an e-mail message, that she had been already considered to do this cross checking since several years from now. But she claimed that every time she intended to begin, she cried that "their historical unreliability has always led us to conclude against it." Ginsberg announced that now she has talked to the providers and advisers in the past few days, and now the company is ready to finally make the change and implement the plans.
It was quoted from her e-mail, as she said that "We've been advised that a combination of improved technology and an improved database now enables a sufficient degree of accuracy to move forward with this initiative, despite its continued imperfection."
The lawsuit is based on a week old incident, which happened with a resident of California, who was on a date with a person she met through the website. She claims that she was sexually assaulted by that person during their second date at a West Hollywood cafe. In the lawsuit, she proposes that such incidents are very crucial in ones’ life, and can very well be prevented, if the company runs a appropriate and more viable background check on its database.
Matthew Traub, the spokesman of Match.com implied that the decision of starting to cross check the users was in discussions between the company officials already and is not exactly a direct reaction of the lawsuit. Though it was also acknowledged that the timing of both the decision and lawsuit is not a mere co-incidence, the lawsuit did actually speed up the consideration of implementing the decisions.
However, Ginsberg, the president, notified that these revised policies of the company shall not be taken by the users as perfect, and they should definitely remain watchful on the dates anyway. The company has listed very handy safety instructions for all its users, which mentions to always meet initially at a public place in open hours, keep either a friend or someone in your family informed about where and when the date is taking place, and also to stay sober.
Match.com is likely to actually implement this policy of cross checking within the upcomming 60 to 90 days.
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