The app for independent voices
The Tea dating app leak has leaked ~60 GB of user data, including user selfies, driver’s license, and home address.
Tea app stored everyone's photo and ID uncrypted in a public firebase storage bucket.
According to the Tea’s description, the app allows women to upload photos, personal details, and gossip about the men they’ve dated:
“Tea is a must-have app, helping women avoid red flags before the first date with dating advice, and showing them who’s really behind the profile of the person they're dating.
Users can access a nationwide forum of posts and can set alerts for a man’s name so you never miss any tea about your potential date, ex, or partner, and so you can make sure they are not a cheater. Users can anonymously ask for dating and relationship advice to find support and empowerment from our community of verified women.”
The only way to avoid such breaches is not to collect the data in the first place. Otherwise, long term, such breaches are inevitable. The IRS, the NSA, and Equifax have had big data breaches.
Here’s some technology to use instead:
Monero anonymous cryptocurrency:
Stamp ID p2p reputation / identity protocol
BrightID - BrightID is a privacy-first social identity network that allows you to prove to applications that you are accessing them fairly with only one account.
mCaptcha - anonymous rate limiting
