Match.com Says It Will Check National Sex Offender Registry

Match.com says it will begin cross-referencing members against the National Sex Offender Registry after a lawsuit filed in California, in which a woman claims she was raped by a convicted offender she met on the dating website. Mandy Ginsberg, president of Match.com, U.S., said in a statement that "improved technology and an improved database now enables a sufficient degree of accuracy to move forward" with an initiative it had previously discounted because of the background checks' "historical unreliability."