Criminal activities are widely facilitated by online means; so are sex crimes. Online dating, also referred to as e-dating, enables people to get in touch with potential romantic partners through digital means. Unfortunately, sex criminals also exploit online dating platforms to find victims.Several e-dating applications have been developed for computers and mobile phones, but few, if any, efforts have focused on retrieving evidence from e-dating applications. This chapter describes forensic methods for retrieving evidence from two popular e-dating applications -Tinder and Coffee Meets Bagel -by examining iPhone backups created via iTunes on Windows and Macintosh personal computers.
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