What happened to the Tea App is exactly what Opacity was designed to prevent.
News like this is heartbreaking, but unfortunately, not surprising. 13,000 photos from a dating app leaked onto 4chan. No one consented. No one expected this. And in 2025, it shouldn’t take a breach to remind us that users deserve better.
This is the exact use case we built Opacity to solve:
✅ Users prove who they are without giving away personal data by acting as a digital notary
✅ Verifications happen privately through standard APIs (socials, dating apps, etc.)
✅ Zero-knowledge proofs mean no screenshots, no central honeypots, and no leaks
We’d even go one step further: apps like Tea could use Opacity to automate verifications, checking if two people matched, confirming users are real through verified social media accounts, all without ever exposing sensitive content or storing it.
Privacy shouldn’t be an afterthought. It should be the default.
If you're building anything that relies on trust, you don’t need to collect more data; you need better verification.
Read more on the Tea app hack: https://t.co/fv4o9ZK1Jh