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Tinder's Personalized Pricing Algorithm Found to Offer Higher Prices for Older Users
- Occurred
- Mar 1, 2015
- Published
- Aug 11, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Tinder’s personalized pricing was found by Consumers International to consider age as a major determinant of pricing, and could be considered a direct discrimination based on age, according to anti-discrimination law experts.
Developers
- Tinder
Deployers
- Tinder
Harmed parties
- Tinder users over 30 years old
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Algorithmic pricing based on age constitutes discriminatory treatment and potential legal violation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8