Encouraging people to be safe and care about their privacy on the internet is not victim blaming.

I'm sure their privacy policy gave the standard promises about storing their private data in a secure way, which _they did not do. _

This is what people want to warn others of. The developers of Tea are hardly the only offenders. Definitely not an example of victim blaming.

In the current environment, at-risk people (women, immigrants, etc) who might have “at-risk” activities (abortion, immigration, etc) don’t have the luxury of relying on a privacy policy. I am not blaming them, I am simply stating how it must be if they are to avoid adverse actions.

This particular instance involved poorly secured data; what happens when warrantless demands are made by the government?

The Tea debacle proves that sensitive data cannot be trusted once out of your hands.