Mastodawn

The Tea app had very good thought behind it, but was majorly logistically and practically flawed from its very premise and to work would require both privacy compromises and serious restructuring.
https://www.tumblr.com/fo3lonewanderer/813180732706045952/the-idea-of-the-tea-app-is-somewhat-good-but-had?source=share
#Tea #TeaApp #Privacy #Security #OpSec #OnlinePrivacy #OnlineSafety

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💬 0 🔁 0 ❤️ 0 · The idea of the Tea app is somewhat good, but had some very obvious and very serious problems from the start: · What is stopping someone from using the ID/information of a female f…

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ResearchBuzz: Firehose Mar 5

Mashable: Men are paying to have negative posts removed from Tea app. “According to Tea App Green Flags’ FAQs, they can only remove posts with direct references to a client. On average, the site says, a Tea App ‘takedown campaign’ will take 21 – 30 days. The lengths of other takedowns depend on the platform. Price-wise, it costs $1.99 to report one Tea account and up to $79.99 to report 25 of […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/05/mashable-men-are-paying-to-have-negative-posts-removed-from-tea-app/

Mashable: Men are paying to have negative posts removed from Tea app

Mashable: Men are paying to have negative posts removed from Tea app. “According to Tea App Green Flags’ FAQs, they can only remove posts with direct references to a client. On average,…

ResearchBuzz: Firehose

Gravitas Jan 12

What Is The Tea App That Was Hacked?

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/wfzSpyvLj3VxiVzTxNTbLC

What Is The Tea App That Was Hacked?

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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Aug 30, 2025

#TeaApp: They joined for safety. Then addresses were leaked and shared
After #Tea #dating #app leaked information on its users, BBC found two online maps "purporting to represent the locations of women who had signed up for Tea... showing 33,000 pins spread across the #UnitedStates."
It is unsurprising that the leak was exploited. The app had drawn criticism ever since it had grown in popularity.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce87rer52k3o

Tea app: I joined for safety. Then my address was leaked and shared

Thousands of women who signed up had their data, including images, posts, and comments, leaked.

Antonella Aug 26, 2025

Dal boom virale al retrogusto amaro: Tea App doveva essere il dolce, ma siamo già all’ammazzacaffè. 🤦
👉 Rete di sicurezza o gogna digitale? Che ne pensate?
https://blodiario.wordpress.com/2025/08/17/tea-app-il-tripadvisor-dei-fidanzati-successo-scandali-e-il-retrogusto-amaro/

#TeaApp #DatingOnline #RedFlag #PrivacyOnline

Tea App, il Tripadvisor dei fidanzati: successo, scandali e il retrogusto amaro

Siamo ufficialmente alla frutta.Anzi no: al dolce. E pure all’ammazzacaffè.Parlo di Tea App, il nuovo giocattolo virale del dating che ha fatto impazzire mezza America (e non solo). L’idea, in sé, …

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Børge Aug 21, 2025

What I learned from this video is that Tea is the #3 app in the US right now – mere days after a giant privacy leak scandal! And I keep having to learn just how true the old adage "all pr is good pr" really is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0JtK2TNXwA

#FocusFriend #nerdfighter #vlogbrothers #tea #TeaApp #privacy #security

The Problem with My Brother's Hit New App

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Alec Muffett Aug 13, 2025

The Facial-Recognition Sham | The Atlantic
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114396
#AgeEstimation #AgeVerification #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #TeaApp #censorship #surveillance #vpn

The Facial-Recognition Sham | The Atlantic

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alecm Aug 12, 2025

The Facial-Recognition Sham | The Atlantic

Losing anonymous internet access means giving companies and government agencies more power than ever to track our activities online. It means transforming the American conception of the open internet into something reminiscent of the centralized tracking systems we’ve long opposed in China and similar countries. At this moment, the prospect of an internet linked to our real identity has never felt so threatening.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/08/facial-recognition-sham/683831/

#ageEstimation #ageVerification #censorship #onlineSafety #onlineSafetyAct #surveillance #teaApp #VPN

The Facial-Recognition Sham

Surveillance won’t make the internet safer.

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Dr. TheDbof

Aug 8, 2025

Are we fucking serious right now?? #teaapp

https://infosec.exchange/@beyondmachines1/114993271096437667

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TeaOnHer app, rival to the Tea safety app leaks driver's licenses and personal data of 53,000 users TeaOnHer, a controversial dating-related app for men, exposed personal data of approximately 53,000 users including driver's licenses, verification selfies, and private communications through critical security vulnerabilities that allow unauthorized access via publicly accessible web addresses without authentication. The breach also exposed the app creator's administrative credentials in plaintext. **** #cybersecurity #infosec #incident #dataleak https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/teaonher-app-rival-to-the-tea-safety-app-leaks-driver-s-licenses-and-personal-data-of-53000-users-1-v-a-q-o/gD2P6Ple2L

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