This probably should have been done AGES ago!

Match.com, the very popular dating website, has announce that it will start checking it's users against the registered sex offenders database, and booting off those who are on the list.

Absolutely this will make it MUCH safer for people out there who want to try online dating!

This news comes on the heels of a lawsuit, though, Match insists that their decision was not a direct cause of it. The lawsuit is because of a terrible happening that could have been avoided with a simple background check:

The change in policy came after a California entertainment executive filed a lawsuit last week charging she was sexually assaulted by a man she met through the dating service.

On their second date, the lawsuit charged, the man brought the woman back to her house - and forced her to perform a sexual act.

The victim claimed a simple background check would have exposed the man's past, which her lawyer said included a history of violence and sexual assault.

That's a very horrible, and luckily, very rare thing for Match. We know a bunch of people who the site has worked for without issue (Read more...)

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