What Lies Beneath? The Forensics of Online Dating
Project Members
Dheeraj Gurugubelli, Lourdes Gino and Dr. Marcus K Rogers
Dheeraj Gurugubelli, Lourdes Gino and Dr. Marcus K Rogers
Abstract
If you are an overworked, 25-year-old professional, working through the clock, even dating websites can seem uninteresting and too time consuming. Thanks to the slide, scroll and swipe-based online dating smartphone apps. One can just scroll through pictures, and connect or pass profiles with a swipe on a smartphone. Value added features like geo-location based user filtering, college-based user matches, megaflirt and user-to-user messaging are available for a small premium subscription fees. This is exactly the phenomenon behind dating apps like Tinder, CoffeemeetsBagel, DateMySchool, Zoosk and many others. Such platorms that allow information storage and sharing, open doors to cybercriminals, who pry on the users. This research aims to discover the digital evidence from such apps in smartphones.