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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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[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 45 points 2 days ago (3 children)

This is why there should be a nationwide rule that PII data should be deleted after the users identity has been verified

[–] mang0@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Truly impressive how little america cares about its citizens.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

BUT WE HAVE FREEDUM!!!

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

There should be a time limit on all data.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

A better rule is that PII data should never be used as a basis for auth/auth except by government agencies in the process of delivering legally mandated government services.