Sunday 20 February 2011

Government regulation

US government regulation of dating services began with the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA) [24] which took effect in March 2007 after a federal judge in Georgia upheld a challenge from the dating site European Connections. The law requires internationally oriented dating services to conduct, among other procedures, sex offender checks on US customers before communication can occur with a foreigner.

Only 4 percent of Singaporeans having ever used an online dating service. Internet dating is not that popular despite the country’s high rate of internet penetration. This could be attributed to the government's traditional role of matching up singles in the past decades.[25]

New Jersey became the first state to enact a law requiring the sites to disclose whether they perform background checks.

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