Editing Online dating (section)

== Government regulation ==
U.S. government regulation of dating services began with the [[International Marriage Broker Regulation Act]] (IMBRA)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Laws/Memoranda/Static_Files_Memoranda/Archives%201998-2008/2006/imbra072106.pdf |title=International Marriage Broker Regulation Act Implementation Guidance – HQOPRD 70/6.2.11 |publisher=[[U.S. Department of Homeland Security]] |date=July 21, 2006 |author=Aytes, Michael |access-date=2012-11-11}}</ref> which took effect in March 2007 after a federal judge in Georgia upheld a challenge from the dating site European Connections. The law requires dating services meeting specific criteria—including having as their primary business to connect U.S. citizens/residents with foreign nationals—to conduct, among other procedures, sex offender checks on U.S. customers before contact details can be provided to the non-U.S. citizen. In 2008, the state of New Jersey passed a law which requires the sites to disclose whether they perform background checks.<ref name="MSNBC">{{cite web|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23117392|title=Background checks split online dating industry – Technology & science – Security – NBC News|date=2008-02-12|publisher=NBC News|access-date=2014-01-02}}</ref>

In the [[People's Republic of China]], using a transnational matchmaking agency involving a monetary transaction is illegal.<ref>{{cite web|author=马玉佳 |url=http://www.china.org.cn/china/2011-08/30/content_23312519.htm |title=Transnational matchmaking illegal in China |publisher=China.org.cn |date=2011-08-30 |access-date=2014-01-02}}</ref> The [[Philippines]] prohibits the business of organizing or facilitating marriages between Filipinas and foreign men under the [[Philippine Republic Act 6955|Republic Act 6955]] (the Anti-Mail-Order Bride Law) of June 13, 1990; this law is routinely circumvented by basing [[mail-order bride]] websites outside the country.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KzhEUE35pRcC&pg=PA103 |title=Trafficking And the Global Sex Industry |access-date=2013-04-16|isbn=9780739113134 |last1=Beeks |first1=Karen |last2=Amir |first2=Delila |year=2006 |publisher=Lexington Books }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=muPfQjYP-0IC&pg=PA55 |title=Romance on a Global Stage: Pen Pals, Virtual Ethnography, and "Mail-Order Brides" |author=Nicole Constable |date=2003-08-19 |publisher=University of California Press |access-date=2013-04-16|isbn=9780520937222 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=Mae Ryan |title=Imported Filipino brides share the ups and downs of settling in America |url=http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2012/09/26/28576/imported-filipino-brides-settle-into-love-in-south/ |newspaper=SCPR |date=26 September 2012 |access-date=9 December 2014 }}</ref>

Singapore's [[Social Development Network]] is the governmental organization facilitating dating activities in the country. Singapore's government has actively acted as a matchmaker for singles for the past few decades, and thus only 4% of Singaporeans have ever used an online dating service, despite the country's high rate of internet penetration.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Singapore offers love vouchers to promote dating|url=https://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/singapore-offers-love-vouchers-promote-dating-article-1.1222047|website=New York Daily News|date=December 17, 2012 |access-date=2020-05-27}}</ref>

In December 2010, a [[New York State]] Law called the "Internet Dating Safety Act" (S5180-A) went into effect that requires online dating sites with customers in New York State to warn users not to disclose personal information to people they do not know.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.internetdatingconference.com/new-york-senate-bill-S5180a-internet-dating-safety-act.php|title=S5180-A|publisher=Internetdatingconference.com|access-date=2014-01-02}}</ref>