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.
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).