Litigation was in the air this Valentine’s Day when online dating conglomerate Match.com, the parent organisation of Tinder and Hinge, found itself accused of encouraging addictive behaviour in a class action filed in Northern California. “Over the past decade, MatchGroup’s application-based dating platforms have altered social reality,” Oksayan et al remarked in the filing. “A millennium of traditional courtship has been replaced by technology. Striking up an in-person conversation with a stranger cannot c ...