Badoo - Media Reception and Censorship

Media Reception and Censorship

In 2008, Badoo was profiled in the PDA blog of The Guardian.

According to TopTenReviews Badoo is "like a chat room, dating site and picture rating site disguised as a social network." It was noted Badoo did not offer any group or other type of community to facilitate users meeting similar people.

As of April 2011 it is censored in the United Arab Emirates and elsewhere. Techcrunch reports that as of January 2010, access to Badoo in Iran is blocked by the Iranian government.

Web of trust, the community-based website reputation ratings tool rated the site as trustworthy but with a risk of spam and phishing.

Finnish newspaper Iltalehti reported that numerous Badoo profiles have been created without people's consent, and that people have reported Badoo's actions to the police. The same article states there are images of women in hospital just after giving birth, raising suspicions about whether one would willingly upload such images to a dating service. It also states that Badoo may use several Facebook applications to automatically gather Facebook users' personal information.

In April 2011 Wired magazine carried a feature on the website and its founder.

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