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The Facial-Recognition Sham

The Atlantic - Technology

If you are going to promise users privacy, then you really need to follow through. Tea Dating Advice, a service that advertised itself as a safe space for women to anonymously share information about former partners--to warn others about abuse and cheating--says that it is locked down. Users are not allowed to take screenshots, and the app says it verifies that its users are women. So why did Tea let me, a middle-aged man, create an account just a few days after suffering two major security breaches? Last month, hackers wormed their way into Tea and accessed sensitive user data; 70,000 user images and more than 1 million private messages reportedly were leaked, including communications about abortions, users' driver's-license photos, and phone numbers that had been shared in private messages.