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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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[–] 3 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

Tell that to UK citizens. They have to. To be "protected". The irony

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I live in the UK and, like nearly everyone else in the UK, have never been required to do this. The only time it's required is when accessing adult-only sites, and there are some obvious workarounds in those cases, yarr.

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