Opinion by: Alexander Linton, president of the Session Technology Foundation

The viral women’s dating safety app Tea was under fire for leaking users’ identity documents, DMs and selfies, but this is not just another data leak. The Tea incident demonstrated that centralized platforms cannot deliver the privacy and safety they promise. It highlighted an urgent need to abandon these low-privacy systems for decentralized identity, data management and user verification solutions.

Tea’s website describes the platform as a “secure, anonymous” place for women to share information about the people they meet while dating. Along with its social features, like posting comments and images of encounters, Tea also advertises safety features like phone number look-ups, background checks and catfish ima

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