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Dating Site Creates Profiles From Public Records
schliz writes "Online dating company Gotham Dating Partners has announced plans to create profiles for non-registered individuals based on publicly available information from social networking sites, e-mail registries, mailing lists, marketing surveys, government census records, real estate listings and business websites. Although the Australian Privacy Commissioner has warned that the automatic creation of identifiable profiles of individuals without their knowledge is 'not good privacy practice,' Gotham Dating Partners does not expect to face any privacy issues from the move, which is expected to boost its membership from 6.5 million to 340 million worldwide."
http://xkcd.com/713/
I felt obliged to post an XKCD link -- as it is our custom.
Which leads to the question: why not just use Facebook directly? (And the alternate question: why hasn't someone tied together Facebook and a dating service yet? Seems like an obvious connection.)
I can't see though why anyone would use a service where 95% of the members can't respond since they aren't registered. If the goal is to increase the signal to noise ratio by finding a good match and a successful pairing then you would want to remove idle users not add them.
I tried that, but it seems that 90% of the people are in the Mafia, farmers, or zombie hunters
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Well, it would mean that someone is dating me for my BRAINZ!!
Sorry, I just couldn't resist that one. ;-)
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A: What's the difference between a cucumber sandwich and unprotected anal sex?
B: I don't know.
A: In that case, would you like to come to tea tonight?
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Cool, someone's going to create a profile for me on a dating site!
I hope they let me know if I get laid.