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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Katie Strick

'Dating has never felt more unsafe': How the Tea app hack exposed the very issue it was built to solve

Mia* was sitting at her desk in Clerkenwell when she heard news that Tea, the controversial women-only app that enables users to vet potential dates, had been hacked.

Similar whisper groups including ‘Are We Dating The Same Guy?’ had exploded in recent years, gaining popularity in cities such as London. Mia regularly found herself checking them before a date. She felt the need to do her due diligence as she’d had too many instances of meeting men who weren’t who they said they were.

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