This Senator Sent Tinder a Valentine's Letter to Demand It Finally Make Its Network Secure

Future Tense is a partnership of Slate, New America, and Arizona State University that examines emerging technologies, public policy, and society. While it's certainly not embarrassing or uncommon to use a dating app, plenty of people don't want to broadcast it. For Tinder users, though, that's happening anyway, and it has been for a long time. Despite the fact that the company has known about its app's security vulnerabilities for almost a year now, Tinder hasn't yet made the necessary patches to its network to keep its users' personal information safe. So on Wednesday, Valentine's Day, Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden wrote a lovely note to Greg Blatt, the CEO of Tinder, asking that his company get its act together.