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Legality involved with "dating" websites?


moose-en-a-gant

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I'm working on a dating website, nothing new, just to touch up on sockets, file sharing, dragging, ajax, a bunch of different stuff that will help me learn more and implement into future projects.

 

Currently I'm working on the "flow" or control statement of the results a person matches

 

right now I'm going by gender, orientation then age, then from here on some more stuff, but I'm going to post another thread about asking to simplify like a switch statement possibly, anyway

 

I'm curious about two things: age and photos

 

I know that you guys aren't legal experts or something, I'm just hoping that maybe one or two of you have worked on a similar project and have learned some things about legal implications.

 

For example, I set an age limit of 2 digits, so 100 is out (obviously) and 9 is out and below but what about 10 or anything between 10 and 17 say...

 

I'm not trying to "restrict minors" although I'm not sure if I'm supposed to anyway.

 

I am thinking of implementing something where a 50 year old can't talk to a 17 year old but these are default settings, and I will give a user the ability to change their filter settings. Regardless a person can fake their information which I catch by my own design but anyway

 

About the nude photo thing, I read that (OCR?) automated systems can be fooled like a bald head or a stomach or something so, what happens there?

 

I'm scared about CP, don't want that stuff.

 

Really anything nude so I'm not sure what to do.

 

Is it bad to give a dating website "free reign" ?

 

I mean of course a person can "block" another person but... I don't know

 

I'd appreciate any thoughts on this matter.

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As has been said before, talk to a lawyer.

 

In the US at least, you'd have to deal with the COPPA law if you allow anyone under the age of 13 to sign up and use your site. That is why most places set their age limit there.

 

As you already indicated though, a person can just lie about their information and bypass whatever kind of filter you try to implement. That is why you'll want to talk to a lawyer to find out what you'd be liable for in those situations.

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