New iPhone App Lets You 'Look Up Before You Hook Up'
Posted 09/25/09 at 09:13:43 AM by Paul Lilly
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When did dating get so complicated? In the 'old' days, it was boy meets girl, boy meets girl's father, girl's father wields shotgun while interrogating boy, boy returns girl by agreed upon curfew. Simple, right?
Not anymore, but if you own an iPhone, you can weed out potentially bad dates before ever bringing them home to meet the 'rents. A new app called DateCheck runs a background check on a would-be Romeo to see if he's been hiding a criminal past, including sexual assaults, drug arrests, or drunken driving.
Players be warned - the app also exposes financial data, such as how big your house is, the home's price, and how much real estate tax is paid, TGDaily reports.
"DateCheck is tougher on my dates than even my Dad was," said Intelius product marketing manager Katherine Herman during an on-state demonstration.
Wow....
Submitted by optionboy16 on Sat, 09/26/2009 - 8:34pm
First off, it's none of her damn business how much money I make. Second, if she wants to know all these things about me, all she has to do is ask. Relationships are based on trust. Have I ever been arrested? How much do I make? How big is my house? Any women that asks me those questions on a first date will not have a second one with me. For me, personally, two people should go out and talk about those things.....eventually. It's like dating a girl from the CIA. She has my financial info, my address, my criminal history. It's like a bad spy movie. For the record, I'm a young man, in his 20s,with no criminal record, who is successful professionally, and I make decent living.
Any girl that uses this app.....that's a BIG red flag.
Submitted by frostysplace on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 7:28pm
A tool is a tool, all Intelius and Apple have done is allow a new tool, making it easier for some a$$ to get his or her hands on your personal information. I'm not saying the information wasn't already out there, just that now it's available to any fool with an iPhone. I just read a comment that dubbed this app the sleaze detector,,,, only if alarms went off the moment it first booted in the lab !
Submitted by Biceps on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 8:59am
This is exactly like a skit from Amazon Women from the Moon, a collection of sketches from the 80s. I think the skit I'm referring to is actually on www.hulu.com somewhere. It is always scary when comedy becomes real life. Now the real question is whether this service is for the protection of people dating, or for gold-diggers to have a more accurate database to work with.
good for the ladies but...
Submitted by nekollx on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 8:36am
Does it work for us guys? Will it tell us if she's a gold digger?
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Submitted by zepontiff on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 7:05am
This app looks like something only a bad date would use.
Submitted by dethdeks on Fri, 09/25/2009 - 4:12pm
i find it funny that everyones soo scared to even let there info out of site that they would allow an app like this. not only does it pretty much tell you anything about the person but doesnt it also kinda work into the hands of idenity theft? tells the people all your financial info along with your criminal records ? well guess no ones safe now adays. i have nothing to hide but if i found out a person i was going on a date used this on me id drop them off at the corner of the street n drive away never looking back
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