Consent-Based Verification: The Future of Dating Safety (2026)
Dating apps verify photos. They don’t verify people. That single failure is responsible for the trust gap that makes 57% of women feel unsafe online dating (Essence), the $1.3 billion stolen annually through romance scams (FTC, 2026), and the 79% of college students who won’t use dating apps at all (IDscan.net, 2024). Consent-based verification is…
