FROM DIGITAL ROMANCE TO DIGITAL VULNERABILITY: ONLINE DATING, CHANGING RELATIONSHIP PATTERNS, AND THE LEGAL PROTECTION OF PRIVACY AND CONSENT AMONG YOUTH IN INDIA — A SOCIO-LEGAL STUDY

Online dating is one of the most important of the part’s modern world, where internet, smartphone and dating application is most common to use where every people of society use that kind of things. It helps individual to maintain their relationship and through it people can interact with another individual, develop their friendship and form romantic relation with them, like their advantages or their benefits there are many types disadvantage also happened in online dating like online dating created many types of social, emotional, privacy and legal challenges. Online dating users experience many numbers of issue like, fake profile, romantic scams, cyberstalking, online blackmail, identity theft. This paper examines that some of social, legal issues that are relating to online dating, privacy, cybercrime and online dating that raise including privacy, cybercrime and many types of online harassments. Aim of this paper is about to discuss many types of social and legal issues that created due to online dating raising, in which privacy, cybercrime and online harassment is involved. The ambition of this paper to discuss many types of social and legal issues that is related to online dating, including privacy, cybercrime and online harassment. The paper also focuses on the legal provisions related to online dating in India, such as the Furthermore, the current legal issues related to online dating, including the challenges in identifying the offenders, reporting cybercrimes, preserving digital evidence, and seeking legal remedies, will be discussed. This research also aims the need for digital awareness, responsible use of dating sites and apps, improved privacy protection, reporting mechanisms and safety measures. I plan to obtain research results to understand if current legal and technological frameworks are sufficient to prevent online dating dangers and establish recommendations for safer and more responsible dating in the digital environment.