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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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[–] thatradomguy@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Another example of why people shouldn't be uploading/sharing nudes on any platform when the pretense is that it will only be between 2 people. That just isn't realistic anymore. Never was, really. I still don't get how people can hear and know about all the hacks happening now but they can't see that sending nudes is somehow unsafe? Why does society work this way?

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 6 points 6 days ago

Send nudes on Signal!

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I guess sending nudes is the norm and 'expected?' There's social pressure to conform, and as we know, security isnt generally in the front of people's minds...

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

One would have hoped the lesson here would be about the dangers of commoditfiying everything as a fucking "app", but no, it looks like its not the increadably irresponsible company at fault (as is tradition).

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Tea is the offshoot of all those "Are We Dating The Same Guy" Facebook groups where ladies gossip, talk shit, slander and creep-shame guys they went on dates with, sometimes throwing around false accusations maliciously to get men ostracized.

On one hand, damn these groups are toxic as fuck and that makes me feel a lot less sympathetic. But on the other hand, this is a textbook argument for why mandatory age verification laws need to be abolished. AWDTSG works as a way to keep women safe when it's used as intended but there are too many women that will slander men with false allegations purely out of spite.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.sdf.org -3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Right, because only women are the problem, and men are paragons of virtue.

Fuck off

[–] Electricd@lemmybefree.net 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Right because the comment obviously said that no man did bad things and it was ALL women fault

Fuck off with your straw man

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago

Did I state that? No?

You can fuck off.

[–] sunglocto@lemmy.dbzer0.com 216 points 1 week ago (28 children)

This is what happens when you decide to vibecode a service with zero attention to safety or web development. This is why you don't immediately jump onto a new service without it being vetted properly. Now one of the worst communities on the Internet is in possession of over a hundred thousand women's driving licenses and faces. This is going to be an absolute disaster.

[–] Darrell_Winfield@lemmy.world 163 points 1 week ago (4 children)

This is ALSO why no service should ever require or get my driver's license information. Fuck that. Also, yet another Constance to those who can't afford a car or want to improve the environment by living car free.

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[–] gnu@lemmy.zip 156 points 1 week ago (32 children)

People sign up to app intended to share personal information about others without their permission, end up having their own personal information shared without permission - the irony is impressive.

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