After Tea Leak, 33,000 Women's Addresses Were Purportedly Mapped on Google Maps (bbc.com)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/24/2227258/after-tea-leak-33000-womens-addresses-were-purportedly-mapped-on-google-maps
- Source link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce87rer52k3o
"Since the breach, more than 10 women have filed class actions against the company which owns Tea," the article points out, noting that leaked content is also spreading around social media:
> Since the breach, the BBC has found websites, apps and even a "game" featuring the leaked data... The "game" puts the selfies submitted by women head-to-head, instructing users to click on the one they prefer, with leaderboards of the "top 50" and "bottom 50"... [And one researcher calculates more than 12,000 posts on 4Chan referenced the Tea app over the three weeks after the leak.]
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> It is unsurprising that the leak was exploited. The app had drawn criticism ever since it had grown in popularity. Defamation, with the spread of unproven allegations, and doxxing, when someone's identifying information is published without their consent, were real possibilities. Men's groups had wanted to take the app down — and when they found the data breach, they saw it as a chance for retribution.
They weren't the only ones with a gripe against Tea. Back in 2023 the fiance of Tea's CEO founder approached the administrator of a collection of Facebook groups called "Are We Dating the Same Guy?" to see if she'd be the "face" of the Tea app, [2]reports 404 Media . But they add that after Tea failed to recruit her, Tea "shifted tactics" to raid her Facebook groups instead:
> Tea paid influencers to undermine Are We Dating the Same Guy and created competing Facebook groups with nearly identical names. 404 Media also identified a number of seemingly hijacked Facebook accounts that spammed the real Are We Dating The Same Guy groups with links to Tea app.
Reviews for the Tea app show several women later thought the app was affiliated with their trusted Facebook groups, the reporter said this week [3]on a 404 Media podcast .
And they add that founder Sean Cook took over the "Tara" personna that his fiance has used for technical support. "So he's on the app pretend to be a woman, talking to other women who are on the app in order to weed out men who are being deceptive..."
Thanks to Slashdot reader [4]samleecole for sharing the article.
[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce87rer52k3o
[2] https://www.404media.co/how-teas-founder-convinced-millions-of-women-to-spill-their-secrets-then-exposed-them-to-the-world/
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRFaNoU-cGI
[4] https://www.slashdot.org/~samleecole
Somebody is going to get killed (Score:3, Interesting)
The purpose of the app was to identify men who were potentially violent so that women wouldn't go out today for them and be in danger.
You can imagine what will happen with that data and the kind of obsessive compulsive insane dude that would be on the top of any list that do not date
Re:Somebody is going to get killed (Score:5, Insightful)
That is hugely problematic. First, everybody (including every woman) is "potentially violent". Second, if it gets easy to make accusations and those accused have no recourse against false accusations, many accusations will be false. This is why we have "innocent until proven guilty". This is not a luxury, it is necessary because too many people are willing to lie.
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> then he can file a libel suit,
The problem with Tea is you will never get to know someone accused you of anything, you just rest very perplexed on why you lost your charm and ladies unexplainably don't want to date you anymore. If someone published "Tom is a jerk" front page of a newspaper then Tom could sue or contact the newspaper for a Right of Reply which would probably be granted even if this procedure is not formally compulsory by law. But with Tea, you are not aware of a libel so you can't sue anyone. You can't even register on th
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>> then he can file a libel suit,
> you just rest very perplexed on why you lost your charm
Or your job.
Many people have women as higher ups now, and that's assuming the company don't have an absolutely abhorrent HR sector that spies on the employees in every social media available, and will get you fired for any sort of hearsay.
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Indeed. And that is why a "safe space" for character assassination is unacceptable.
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But the people using or maintaining the database don't have to prove anything first? You don't have to be an "incel" to be upset about that. There's also a similar app that tracks abusive women and it could be just as bad.
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Do I really need to point out how hysterical you sound? Applying the burden of proof and standards of evidence of criminal court to a free association question? Really?
That's basically treating the possibility that someone might not want to go on a date with you as in the same category as the state laying criminal charges against you; which is lunatic tier.
Obviously, anyone treating internet hearsay as particularly reliable is about as sensible as someone who believes online product reviews; but both
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What is wrong with you? I am merely pointing out how people behave. You are the "hysterical" one here.
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What is lunatic tier derangement is failing to understand that any accusation, no matter circumstances, requires some standard of proof. Accusations with zero proof have specific name - [1]slander [legaldictionary.net].
[1] https://legaldictionary.net/slander/
Jesus fucking Christ get some therapy (Score:2)
No not everybody is potentially violent. Just because every man has the physical potential for violence doesn't mean that they are potentially violent.
By and large human beings do not like to commit violence against each other. We already social species and it doesn't do well for our survival.
So there is an obvious advantage to picking out who is and isn't prone to violence.
Jesus this threat is really tipping over the rock around here...
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Everybody is potentially violent. It is human nature. Most people need significant provocation to get violent, but everybody can do it if the situation is right. And that is exactly what "potentially violent" means.
That does not mean that everybody is a threat to others that have not threatened them. Now, "prone to violence" is an entirely different thing, even if still fuzzily defined.
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No they will not. This is a site for 1%'er women dating 0.1%'er men. The only fight going on here is over some guy's trust fund fortune.
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> No they will not. This is a site for 1%'er women dating 0.1%'er men.
Ow! My sides!
If women want to meet "0.1%" men, they are going to have to do a lot more than sign up for a website with rather low bars for membership. And then if you develop a market where there is a 10:1 ratio between the buyers and sellers, there is going to be a figurative bloodbath.
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> The purpose of the app was to identify men who were potentially violent so that women wouldn't go out today for them and be in danger.
However, this did not end up being the function of the app, as it ended up being used to gossip and reputation destroy overwhelming majority of non-violent men who had no ability to defend their reputation.
Almost no sympathy... (Score:2)
I get the sentiment some people have over this entire platform supporting a negative narrative. It is disgusting and it is BS.
On the other hand... this entire tyranny online of doxxing people for any minor infraction, deemed by some dumb haxor bitches personality, is worse.
Proverbs 21:19 (Score:2)
I can see reasons that some men might want to know who uses this app.
I don't have any sympathy (Score:2, Insightful)
The entire purpose of this app was to dox/embarrass men. You reap what you sow.
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> The entire purpose of this app was to dox/embarrass men. You reap what you sow.
Found the incel.
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Insulting someone for not having sex? Kind of a step lower than judging a woman for being a virgin. You know what incels are? Generally poor, disabled, and/or just too awkward of ugly. Either he's an incel and you're punching down in a pretty vile way or he's not, but it's not your business.
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> You know what incels are? Generally poor, disabled, and/or just too awkward of ugly.
I never had a hard time getting laid when I was poor and awkward. Ugly is up for debate, I suppose. My level of disability is relatively mild but not zero. But I have always treated other people like humans, and never assumed they owed me sex. I would suggest this to anyone self-describing as an incel.
There are plenty of incels out there who are clearly just assholes, without the charisma that gets some assholes laid. They should try not idolizing assholes, and treating people like people. It might or might
Re: I don't have any sympathy (Score:1)
What about Trump?
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He's had super-model wives and surrounded himself with better looking women than you will ever have.
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> He's had super-model wives
And cheated on all of them.
> surrounded himself with better looking women than you will ever have.
Including young woman "hostess" that were 18 as "masseuses". This proves that yes, money really can buy you anything, up to a supreme court judge's robes - with the judge still in 'em.
Speaking of - Where's Melania? We know where Kristi Nome is but she's a bit long in the tooth for Donnie.
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> What about Trump?
He's more of a shitstain than a person, and he was also never poor, which explains how he could afford to spend all that time on Epstein's island where Epstein's procuress claims she never saw him raping the children he definitely raped there.
Were you going somewhere else with that, or...?
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> Beats getting fucked in the ass by your spic father!
My spic father is dead, so I'm quite sure he's not fucking anyone, anally or otherwise.
Being raped by a sad old loser with a tiny mushroom dick who claims to be a financial genius while having underperformed the S&P ain't great, though. I guess it beats being raped by someone whose penis can be seen unaided, but his victims have made it clear that it is small comfort.
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What does that have to do with Tea, though? Are you prepared to defend it on its merits, especially considering how badly it went for women using it?
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> What does that have to do with Tea, though?
Slashdot is a tree-structured forum. Sometimes people discuss things which are peripheral to the story being discussed. Hope this helps.
No....incels = shitty man + victim mentality (Score:3, Insightful)
> Insulting someone for not having sex? Kind of a step lower than judging a woman for being a virgin. You know what incels are? Generally poor, disabled, and/or just too awkward of ugly. Either he's an incel and you're punching down in a pretty vile way or he's not, but it's not your business.
Fuck off with the pity party. No one calls good men incels. The insult is hurled when men blame feminism for their bad dating experiences or the entire female gender instead of improving themselves or putting more effort into dating...and no one is called an incel because they're poor, ugly, or disabled. Awkward?...not as sure, but again...if you're a nice guy, you're probably not being called an incel. No man who gets friend-zoned gets called an incel...and if you're getting friend-zoned, it means you'
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You're either tall and/or have far above average looks, or you haven't dated in quite a while.
> No one calls good men incels
I see it all the time.
> The insult is hurled when men blame feminism for their bad dating experiences or the entire female gender instead of improving themselves or putting more effort into dating
This is one of the biggest giveaways that you haven't dated recently. I, and most of the single men that I know, had a far easier time dating women in our 20s due to the complete lack of social
This is based on conversations with people dating (Score:2)
No matter how bad things are for men, little is less appealing than the victim mentality and men blaming women for their failures, especially when they blame feminism or societal trends that have have a tenuous link to your situation. Similarly, if you go for a job interview and rant about how the world sucks...yeah...it probably won't be looked upon favorably.
Whining is gross
Self-pity is gross
If you had 2 dates and one ranted about men the whole date and did that shitty "men are pigs" misandrist rant
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> No matter how bad things are for men, little is less appealing than the victim mentality and men blaming women for their failures
It's not intended to be a victim mentality. It's men expressing their problems and attempting to be supportive of each other. Society keeps telling men they need to express their emotions and then when some men do, they're told they're adopting a victim mentality and to stop complaining.
It's also interesting that you have empathy for women who struggle to find meaningful rel
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How does this make someone an incel?
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I don’t know anything about the app, but are there any sources or links to confirm what you claim? (Genuine question).
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It's a dating safety app for women. I think we can guess who used the hacked data to dox women, and the kind of people that justify that.
Re: I don't have any sympathy (Score:5, Insightful)
That was the intent anyway. It turned out after the leak that it was mostly just women shitting on guys they've never dated.
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I don’t know anything about the app, but are there any sources or links to confirm what you claim? (Genuine question). Or is this just a thread about imaginary stuff that is happening in everyone’s head?
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In situations like this, I prefer to see for myself rather than take anyone's word for it. Unfortunately, due to Tea's discriminatory registration process I'm unable to do that, so it's just a matter of picking the wild, unsubstantiated rumors that align with your particular viewpoints.
Re: I don't have any sympathy (Score:2)
Thereâ(TM)s at least a few lawsuits from men claiming information on there is fake: [1]https://www.detroitnews.com/st... [detroitnews.com]
[1] https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/08/18/tea-app-dating-advice-users-face-defamation-lawsuits-over-posts-women-date-safely-men-insults/85615891007/
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I don’t know anything about the app,
Then you can stop right there and educate yourself.
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As I understand the situation, if you're a man then you can't register to see the contents of the site for yourself.
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It's an app for women to get revenge on men that have spurned them, with no accountability. It was supposed to be private, so these women believed they could get away with libel. Doxxing them was wrong, but the app was fucked up to start.
I'm sure there are some women who are using this to honestly help other women, but that number is probably vanishingly small.
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Men who demonstrate violent behavior have likely violated several laws and should be brought up on charges. That creates a legal record of poor behavior. No man should be tracked by an app or any other mechanism to encourage vigilantism unless there is a papertrail of legal proof that the man in question is indeed violent. Anything else risks libel.
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This is still not the right approach. Fighting hate with hate just creates more hate. Of course the haters never see that because hate is all they have in their pathetic lives.
Re: I don't have any sympathy (Score:3)
Did you just defend nonviolence over wars?
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WTF are you talking about?