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A California bill to protect people on online dating apps from violence has critics arguing that the measure would put a “scarlet letter” on certain users.
But that’s a feature, not a bug in the proposal.
The state Senate’s public safety committee this week passed a bill that would require online dating services to run criminal background checks on California users. If the user is a registered sex offender or has been convicted of a violent felony, domestic violence, an assault or a hate crime, the dating service must “place a flag” on the user’s profile to let others know.
