Tinder sexual harassment suit settled in undisclosed deal

Tinder has settled the lawsuit brought by former marketing veep Whitney Wolfe alleging a catalogue of sexual harassment and discrimination at the dating app startup. Lawyers for Wolfe told Reuters and others in a statement overnight that the suit had been resolved, but they didn’t reveal the terms of the settlement. "Whitney' …

[ShadowedOne]

Admission Of Guilt..

"..without admission of wrongdoing.."

This garbage has to die, asap. It makes the justice system (or is it the legal industry?) look like a bloody joke.

[TheOtherHobbes]

Re: Admission Of Guilt..

It's just lawyer-speak for 'If we pay you enough, will you shut up?'

[LucreLout]

Re: Admission Of Guilt..

"This garbage has to die, asap. It makes the justice system (or is it the legal industry?) look like a bloody joke."

There is no justice but that which you take for yourself - ask pretty well any victim of serious crime if they consider the legal system to have delivered them justice.

As to the rest of the legal industry, well, it is a joke. A bad joke. As soon as someone says "Hi, I'm a lawyer", you know you're dealing with an unethical, morally bankrupt asshat.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Admission Of Guilt..

I know what you mean: it's annoying when companies "settle" what appears to be a criminal case by paying some money "without admission of wrongdoing". But this was a civil case, as I understand it, so it's perfectly reasonable for the parties to settle out of court in this way, though ideally they would have settled out of court without even going to court. But then it would never have been in the news.

[Johan Bastiaansen]

Re: Admission Of Guilt..

Who did wrong? Two people did!

Who paid? The company did, so the shareholders really.

Well, that's not justice is it.

Give these twats two more months and they'll be claiming they only have the shareholders interest at heart. And nobody will be calling them out.

[PatientOne]

Re: Admission Of Guilt..

Why does it have to die?

Remember: We don't have *proof* of guilt, just the accusation. We don't have the evidence for either side. All we have is a "They did this" v "No we didn't".

Offering to settle does sound like admission of guilt. However, accepting that offer also sounds like an admission that there was no case to answer for.

Another way to look at it is that neither side has a sufficiently strong case to have confidence in a clean win, plus the plaintiff was not sufficiently dedicated to proving their case that they would not accept a 'without prejudice' settlement.

All we can say is the parties involved settled their disagreement in an amicable fashion and they've gone their own ways, and that's really for the best for everyone.

[Ralph B]

Quelle Surprise

So, it looks like the developer of an app that objectivifies potential sexual partners has been objectivifying his business partner. Who'd've thunk it?

[sabroni]

Re: objectivifies potential sexual partners

Humans can have sex without "objectifying" each other. There's nothing wrong with an app that allows consenting adults to find sexual partners. I think the assumption that it requires objectification says more about you than it does about other people.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: objectivifies potential sexual partners

You lost me at "Humans can have sex..."

that sort of glossing over the facts for many of us is just hurtful.

At least add “some” before humans or “occasionally”, "if they are lucky".

[Ralph B]

Re: objectivifies potential sexual partners

Humans can have sex without "objectifying" each other. There's nothing wrong with an app that allows consenting adults to find sexual partners. I think the assumption that it requires objectification says more about you than it does about other people.

Well, since the Apple version of the Tinder app would have been written in Objective C, the company has certainly been "objectivying" the data of the potential sexual partners, at the very least. I think the assumption that I, as a Register commentard, might have been using the term "objectivying" in any other than a programming sense, says more about you than it does about me.

[Anonymous Coward]

Tinder run by a bunch of frat boy

Twunts.

[LucreLout]

Re: Tinder run by a bunch of frat boy

From what I understand of it, it's an app designed and built to help get you laid. Why would anyone be suprised to find the authors and backers are "Frat boy twunts"? It's not like this is a respectable family business.

[DavCrav]

What happens if the relationship pre-dates them joining the company?

This isn't a question about these people (not enough detail given in the article for this question to even be relevant in this case) but what happens if a couple both join a company after they get together, then the relationship goes south and they start slagging each other off, or as in this case one does it to the other? Does the fact that the relationship predates employment have any bearing on the law?

I'm just wondering if you can claim your texts to the person were sent in the personal capacity as 'biiter ex-partner', rather than co-worker?

I suspect the answer is that the law doesn't care about the relationship predating employment, but I wonder if such cases have come up before.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: What happens if the relationship pre-dates them joining the company?

I don't know about that, but if you're married to a colleague ("co-worker"?), which isn't that unusual, then surely you must be allowed to scream abuse and throw furniture at them, regardless of whether that relationship pre-, post- or even co-dates joining the company, because that's just part of your fundamental human right to a family life... ow, someone's just thrown a chair at me...

[Anonymous Coward]

Don't date anyone from work!

A dating company where some of the senior executives engaged in bed-hopping and when two of them fell out, sued the company for 'sexual harrasment'. ref