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Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan (www.404media.co)

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Users from 4chan claim to have discovered an exposed database hosted on Google’s mobile app development platform, Firebase, belonging to the newly popular women’s dating safety app Tea. Users say they are rifling through peoples’ personal data and selfies uploaded to the app, and then posting that data online, according to screenshots, 4chan posts, and code reviewed by 404 Media.

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[–] kalpol@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

California, Utah, Texas all have laws now requiring age verification to use an app store

[–] ftbd@feddit.org 5 points 12 hours ago

I'd be interested to know how that works with F-Droid or Aurora.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

If you think that's the same thing, you don't understand at least on of those things, but safe money is both...