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Singpass use in dating apps raises difficult questions
What Coffee Meets Bagel’s embrace of government verification reveals about our search for authentic connection.
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More people are questioning the wisdom of dating app dependency, says the writer.
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Kalpana Vignehsa
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A dating app, Coffee Meets Bagel, introduced Singpass verification for its Singapore customers
The one-time verification process allows users’ identity card numbers, dates of birth, marital status and gender to be retrieved from government records, while also effectively informing the state that they’re using the dating platform.
