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Now Tinder Has an ‘Explore’ Section Too; U.K. Asks for Internet Privacy Language Kids Can Understand
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Welcome back. Tinder is trying to get people to open its dating app more often with a new tab that borrows strategies from social media. The U.K. wants kids to be presented with online privacy policies that a child could understand. And airport security will soon accept IDs that are stored in digital wallets.
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Offering More to ‘Explore’
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Tinder's Explore page will include a variety of interactive dating features. PHOTO: TINDER
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Tinder is adding a section called Explore to its dating app, making it easier for users to match with others using criteria beyond age, location and sexuality.
The Explore section will include more than 15 types of interests such as “foodies” or “gamers” in order to help users learn more about potential matches, Ann-Marie Alcántara writes for the Experience Report.
It will also incorporate interactive dating features like Swipe Night and Hot Takes, social dating experiences with twists such as a time constraint or a choose-your-own adventure storyline.
Different interests will surface to users depending on their locations, the time of day and their own passions.
Tinder and other dating apps are using techniques commonly found in social media apps, including other apps’ own “explore” tabs, that are designed to keep users coming back to see what’s new, said Alexander Georges, co-founder and chief operating officer of Craftle, an interior design app, and publisher of the Master Design Blog.
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Privacy Policies for Kids
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A new code of practice recommends companies employ diagrams and cartoons to spell out privacy agreements to children online. PHOTO: DOMINIC LIPINSKI/PA WIRE/ZUMA PRESS
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Websites and apps have to refresh their privacy sharing agreements so they are easy for kids to understand, a part of the U.K.’s effort to create a safer and better online environment for users under 18 years old, Katie Deighton reports.
Age Appropriate Design Code, also known as the Children’s Code, recommends that companies targeting under-18s use clear and plain language in privacy agreements and provide child-friendly, “bite-sized” explanations about how they use personal data at the point that use is activated.
It also encourages the use of diagrams, cartoons, graphics, video and audio, interactive content and games.
Several large companies including Google and TikTok in the past month have made changes to their global privacy agreements and interfaces with younger users in mind.
The code’s broad application may also push companies to rethink unwieldy policy agreements for adults too, said Tyler Newby, a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer at Fenwick & West.
Related: The U.K.'s information commissioner asked for international help in her quest to take down annoying cookie pop-ups online. [BBC]
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States Sign On to Digital IDs
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Apple in June said its latest operating system update included support for home keys and ID cards in its wallet. PHOTO: JENNY KANE/ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Residents of several states will be able to store and show their driver’s license or ID on their iPhone or Apple Watch’s digital wallet, The Wall Street Journal’s Dave Sebastian reports.
The new feature will be available first in Arizona and Georgia, with Connecticut, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Oklahoma and Utah to follow.
Apple Wallet already lets people display and use digital documentation such as credit cards, concert tickets and boarding passes. Apple’s latest operating system update included support for home keys and ID cards in its wallet.
The U.S. Transportation Security Administration will enable certain airport security checkpoints as first locations that will accept IDs on iPhone or Apple Watch, according to the company, meaning device owners won’t have to take out their physical card.
“The addition of driver’s licenses and state IDs to Apple Wallet is an important step in our vision of replacing the physical wallet with a secure and easy-to-use mobile wallet,” said Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Apple Pay and Apple Wallet.
Related: Wallets are over, according to personal tech columnist Joanna Stern. [WSJ]
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“If you look up, there are all these Porta Potties with art inside.”
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— Andrew Barrett, a creator of some of the virtual worlds in Burning Man, during a tour of the festival’s online version this year
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A Burger King in Sulphur Springs, Texas. PHOTO: LARRY W SMITH/EPA-EFE/SHUTTERSTOCK
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Burger King took its loyalty program nationwide in the U.S., giving customers 10 “crowns” for every $1 spent. [CNBC]
Shake Shack paused its test of a four-day work week, citing the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic. [Restaurant Business]
Whole Foods said it will start using parent company Amazon’s cashierless technology next year. [The Verge]
Clootrack, a customer-experience analytics startup, raised $4 million in a Series A funding round. [TechCrunch]
The Freedom Phone is described as a smartphone designed for conservatives, but its path has been bumpy. [NYT]
Salon turned off the ability to comment on its articles, pointing readers to social media for discussion. [Digiday]
Australia’s highest court ruled that newspapers and television stations that post articles on Facebook are liable for other Facebook users’ comments on those posts. [WSJ]
Twitter is testing a “Safety Mode” feature designed to block abusive, harassing and hateful messages. [TechCrunch]
Apple wants its Watch to tell users when their blood pressure is rising. [WSJ]
Newsletter compiled with Katie Deighton and Ann-Marie Alcántara
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