Sites marketed as tools for catching infidelity can also be misused by stalkers
Marketplace Tech
American Public Media
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🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 13 minutes
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There are a lot of trending videos of people using face recognition tools to find cheating partners on dating apps. On TikTok, for example, videos have gone viral about people explaining how to use the tools like Cheater Buster, plus other staged videos of supposed partners catching their significant other on Tinder.
Joseph Cox, tech reporter at 404 Media, looked into the sudden rise of these services and the risks they pose to privacy.
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| 1:37.7 | there are lots of trending videos of people using face recognition tools to find cheating partners on dating apps. |
| 1:54.0 | We're just going to be using CheaterBuster AI. |
| 1:57.0 | And it's basically going to use AI to tell us if he's not any dating apps. |
| 2:00.0 | Okay. Here's how I found my boyfriend on Tinder. First, you're going to look up Cheaterbester. You can put their age, gender, location, and also a picture what they look like. I found your Tinder profile, and then you're just gone for five hours and 15 minutes. No. No. Where were you? Well, as you heard, Cheaterbuster is one such tool. Joseph Cox, |
| 2:22.0 | tech reporter with 4-4 media, looked into the sudden rise of these services and the risks to privacy. |
| 2:28.2 | It's not just about sort of identifying somebody, because you already know who the person is you're looking for. |
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