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Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Vladislav Davankov has proposed making it mandatory to mark the profiles of alimony debtors on dating sites. In his appeal to the head of the Russian Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev, he said that this measure would “speed up the debtors' alimony payments.”
“With the development of facial recognition technologies on photographs, it will be possible to automatically add labels to the questionnaire of an alimony debtor,” said Vladislav Davankov.
It is proposed to take information about debtors from the public register. The law on its creation was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin in the spring of 2024. The register is scheduled to appear in May 2025 and will become part of the database of enforcement proceedings of the Federal Bailiff Service (FBS) of Russia. It will contain information about alimony debtors who have been brought to administrative or criminal liability for non-payment of funds for the maintenance of minor children or adult and incapacitated children or disabled parents. In addition, data on debtors put out by the bailiff will be included in the register.
“Functionality can be useful, but it shouldn’t be a reason not to use a dating app”
As Andrey Bronetsky, CEO of the online dating platform in Russia, explained to Realnoe Vremya, it is not yet possible to assess the technical feasibility of implementing the initiative, as there are no details.
“First of all, the question arises how to link a debtor user from the state system with his personal profile on a dating site. In general, as we understand it, such markings should not be mandatory, but voluntary. The functionality can be useful, but should not be a reason not to use a dating app,” he said.
An important issue is cooperation with foreign dating services, which, according to Andrey Bronetsky, “will not follow this norm”.
“If the measures apply only to Russian companies and foreign service providers have freedom of choice, this will lead to a reduction in the competitiveness of Russian companies in favor of foreign companies,” he concluded.
Russia is also developing a separate dating app with credit and alimony verification
They also want to integrate the ability to check a potential partner for tax, credit and alimony debts into the dating app Sputnik, which is being developed by developers from Murmansk. The search itself will not be based on photos, but on common interests, lifestyle, previous relationships and health status.
“All this will be displayed in anonymous questionnaires in the form of a text description. We attach great importance to the detailed processing of personal data: the application will be synchronized with a wide list of open databases, so it will be possible to legally check the absence of tax debts, alimony and much more in a potential partner,” project leader Pavel Kitov, quoted by Izvestia, explained the idea.
According to the developers, the account must necessarily be linked to third-party aggregators such as Verification.Online (Proverka.Online), as well as to public and paid legal databases.
Daria Pinegina
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