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Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
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Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#42Related: Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats (bleepingcomputer.com) | 120 points by akyuu 1 day ago | 145 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44716529
> “A legacy data storage system was compromised”
I am always amused by corporate jargon used to cover up ineptitude.
In this case legacy data storage system = publicly accessible bucket
Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#43Tea is too big too fail, that's why Apple doesn't pull the plug otherwise they would anger a good portion of their angry female user base.
And that angry user base will do what, exactly? Switch to Android? One can dream.
Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#44As a man who's always considered himself a strong feminist, I think that tea's issue are way more profound that just some data breach. Women were convinced to trust the app as a safe space, but it never was for various reasons. First, as proven by the breach, privacy was not guaranteed. Second, I do not see how a women-only app made to complain on men can help any men get better in their behavior, instead of balcaniz…
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squints is that what we’re calling libel/slander now?
Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#45Doxxing as a service is OK for Google/Apple if you market it as safety for their favored audiences against disfavored audiences.
Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#46As a man who's always considered himself a strong feminist, I think that tea's issue are way more profound that just some data breach. Women were convinced to trust the app as a safe space, but it never was for various reasons. First, as proven by the breach, privacy was not guaranteed. Second, I do not see how a women-only app made to complain on men can help any men get better in their behavior, instead of balcaniz…
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Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#47Because there is no punishment for handling data with so much carelesness. If there was a law which seriously punished them, the app would be long gone. That's what you get when the tech bros dictate how the legislation should work
Tech Bros don't dictate how legislation should work. And Tea is not in Europe because under GDPR an app which does doxxing as a service is not legal.
Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#48As long as Apple collects their cut of popular apps through in app purchases, They don't care, and nobody cares. But they should. Tea will just update the app / force update the app to fix these issues.
They did care enough to repeatedly pull apps when they did the same thing but in the opposite direction.
Re: Ask HN: Why is "Tea" still on the App Store after so many data breaches?
#49Doxxing as a service is OK for Google/Apple if you market it as safety for their favored audiences against disfavored audiences.
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