By Joleen Murphy
A number of dating apps, including Tinder and Hinge, are integrating background checks into its service.
The move, which aims to address safety issues in online dating, would inform users of a potential partners' public criminal records.
Chief Executive of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre Noeline Blackwell fears the technology could bring its own problems.
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"First of all they could gather wrong information about people.
"Secondly, people could maliciously put up abusive information that would be included in a background check.
"Thirdly, there is that business of privacy where somebody has a minor conviction at some stage where somebody does not doesn't necessarily want things said about them."
