Comment on Women’s ‘red flag’ app Tea is a privacy nightmare

orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You sign up and then a while later, your personal information gets leaked to the public. Not sure what its other purpose is.

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  • orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s corporate social media/apps in general. Does this thing basically let people list crappy things that happened to them by specific humans?

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    • Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s basically a slander app, from what I can tell.

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      • FauxLiving@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • Nima@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        it seems its an app that helps women flag potential dating candidates as being dangerous or red flags.

        there is the potential for doxxing that comes with that, but I can absolutely understand its use and need when not abused in that manner.

        i wonder if there’s the potential for a different app with more encryption and a way to prevent doxxing and abuse.

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    • Nima@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      it also lists criminal history that might not be disclosed on a dating profile. and other information that might be a red flag.

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      • AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Regardless of the actual truth of that information.

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    • don@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Having no experience with the app whatsoever, I can only guess, and I’d guess that it does as you suggest, though there may be varying levels of specificity involved.

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  • captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You could easily convince me that it was a brilliantly executed honeypot. It’s just too damn poetic.

    “It’s a women’s safety app” No it wasn’t. This app was about women’s safety as much as the recent payment processor porn game censorship bullshit was about child safety. This was about slandering men for fun because women love gossip. The app’s name was “Tea.”

    Not a single woman who signed up for this app stopped to think, “Here’s a brand new app, just came out, has no track record, no reputation. I don’t know who runs this. I don’t know how they secure their database. I know what they’re asking, they want a picture of my government-issued ID. We’ve spent the last two decades reading news headlines of the pattern “tech company was hacked, 2.2 million users compromised including emails, home addresses and SSNs” on a weekly basis. There hasn’t been a week gone by since Dubya was president that hasn’t happened.”

    The women who uploaded pictures of their IDs to some app really had their own safety in mind. Turns out you can short circuit that whole process with hilarious ease if you say things like “women only” and “slander your exes.”

    I don’t think I could have constructed a better example as to why all the recent “prove your identity” shit is comprehensively retarded.

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