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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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[–] phx@lemmy.ca 5 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

No, we mean "sharing what they claim is their experience and details of such"

Maybe they weren't sharing addresses and SSN's (though what's stopping them from doing so), but like anything online it's certainly not hard to make up, spin, or highly exaggerate a story to the detriment of the subject, but without them knowing about it.

So yeah, even if Sally Smith claims that "**Billy Jones of 125 South Street is a big loser who has undisclosed herpes, which who knows how he got it with that small dick of his", maybe the truth is that Billy refused to pay for an expensive meal on a first date it some other thing entirely.

This isn't turnabout (as the leak wasn't intentional), and not abuse either, but it may be a bit karmic.

** Names and story entirely made up for example purposes

[–] XeroxCool@lemmy.world -4 points 12 hours ago

So it's fair because you completely made up a story about what happened in the app?