trentmkelly/tea-app-selfies

Tea app selfies

This dataset contains selfies from the Tea app breach. Tea was an app that only allowed women to join and required users to submit both a selfie and a photograph of their ID before allowing entry.

This repository contains only the selfie images. ID photographs were filtered out before upload.

Contents

The dataset consists of approximately 6.7k JPEG files named with UUID-style filenames.

Intended use

This dataset may be useful for research into privacy, data breaches, biometric data exposure, image dataset filtering, and downstream risks from identity-verification workflows.

Sensitive data warning

This dataset contains real images of people sourced from a data breach. Treat it as highly sensitive. Do not use it to identify, contact, harass, dox, shame, or otherwise target individuals. Do not attempt face recognition or identity matching against external datasets unless you have a clear, lawful, and ethically reviewed research basis.

Limitations

• The dataset has been filtered to remove ID photographs, but no automated or manual filtering process should be assumed perfect.
• Images may include faces, backgrounds, metadata-derived filenames, or other potentially identifying information.
• The dataset should not be treated as representative of any broader population.