Australia proposes to require people to prove their identity to sign up for a dating app, and undergo criminal background checks.

This is likely to mean that the app companies get a lot more data about each user, which they can then abuse.

If Australia passes a law to require these checks, it should also pass a law strictly limiting what other personal data the company can collect. It should not be allowed to know any user's location, ever, and it must delete all copies of a user's data when the user says to do so. Messages between users should be encrypted such that the company cannot decrypt them.

Even with this law, I would refuse to use those apps because they are nonfree software.