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.

  • @[email protected]
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    1134 days ago

    At first I was going to call bullshit because I thought you were exaggerating and being ridiculous.

    Nope. That’s the app. “Anonymous” sharing of pictures and info of other people. Presumably without their permission. That’s fucked up.

    • @[email protected]
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      594 days ago

      Yeah. I mean, I get it. The concept of the app makes sense. And I would be that, on average, it is/would be used for good.

      On the other hand, as a guy, the idea that people are out there sharing reviews of me as a person on the open internet, and I have no way of knowing this, is deeply unsettling. Like, I haven’t done anything wrong - just the whole concept feels very gross.

      • @[email protected]
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        364 days ago

        Especially because the app is called “tea”, like the slang term for gossip. The letter of the intention may have been good but the whole thing is toxic.

        • JackbyDev
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          54 days ago

          as a woman or woman categorized person

          Can’t tell if you’re being transphobic to trans femmes or supportive to femme leaning enbies.

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            Well im talking about external interpretation of ones identity rather than one’s intended expression, so you figure it out. Or don’t.

            • JackbyDev
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              23 days ago

              I’d say that’s supportive of femme leaning enbies rather than transphobic towards trans women.

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                    That was one of the things you proposed. Im suggesting there are other potential meanings, that you did not propose. i will not be explaining what i do mean any farther than i have; i think i already did a decent job for people reading in good faith with capacity for complexity. I’m done with this conversation, it’s already substantially damaged my respect for humanity.

          • @[email protected]
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            34 days ago

            I kniw right? Its pretty fucked, but sometimes belief that people, or even men, are mostly good gets you raped or crawling through a puddle of your own blood with fewer than four functioning limbs.

            Cynical bitches like me though; we tend to make it out.

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        64 days ago

        My problem is how it’s implemented.

        An app where you simply post a name and a location, and then people can DM you with their experiences directly, would be a lot less invasive.

      • @[email protected]
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        104 days ago

        You could ask someone you know to register and share the login, it’s a flawed concept. There’s probably a bunch of partners in there who didn’t even know their boyfriend used their info to create an account to check on themselves.