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5th April 2016
05:49pm BST

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Sounds sneaky, right? Well, apparently everything the site does is above board. According to Vanity Fair, SwindlerBuster uses Tinder's application programming interface, or A.P.I, which stories all of the aforementioned user information and makes it readily accessible to anyone 'with a certain understanding of computer code'.
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On first impressions, a website that charges you just under the price of a pint for the convenience of checking up on your other half, without needing to resort to the often-explosive face-to-face confrontation, seems opportunistic and a bit tacky. But the anonymous tech entrepreneur behind site said that was not the intention.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, he explained: "There is too much data about people that people themselves don’t know is available. Not only are people oversharing and putting out a lot of information about themselves, but companies are also not doing enough to let people know they’re doing it."
It's an interesting argument, although the bright orange "BUSTED" banner in the on-site demonstration doesn't do too much for SwindlerBuster's noble public service image. Still, it's less risky than setting up your own Tinder account for detective purposes. After all, that way they could catch you first.Explore more on these topics: