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Dating app will soon block, blur and alert about incoming d**k pics

Written by Petteri Pyyny @ 28 Apr 2019 4:01

Dating app will soon block, blur and alert about incoming d**k pics

Women using dating apps are more than familiar with the concept of receiving unsolicited pictures of male genitalia. To the point that one of the biggest dating app developers, a company behind Bumble, Badoo, Chappy and Lumen is developing a technology to block those.
Bumble, the parent company, is developing an AI-based solution that detects such pictures when users send them to other users. If detected, the picture will be blurred and the recipient will be alerted about the image. Recipient will have the ability to show the image, if he/she wants to, but also an ability to report the sender automatically to the company's moderators.

"The safety of our users is without question the number one priority in everything we do and the development of Private Detector is another undeniable example of that commitment," founder of the company said in a statement emailed to Mashable.



Feature, dubbed as "Private Detector", will roll out in June, 2018 to all Bumble's dating apps.

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