Site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, all on sale
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Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/14399569

Discord Users Are Being Tracked Through Data-Scraping Site

Internet-scraping outfit Spy.pet claims to have harvested more than four billion public messages made by nearly 620 million users on more than 14,000 Discord chat servers – and is selling access to this trove.

The website presents the data it’s collected in several ways. Each known user has a profile, which contains all known aliases, pronouns, connected accounts to other platforms such as Steam and GitHub, Discord servers joined, and public messages. If you wanted to quite literally spy on a Discord user or users, Spy.pet lets you do that, for a fee.

  • ivy@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    7 months ago

    This shouldn’t surprise anyone. Discord constantly turns everything you do into a URL, images you link in a private chat, you can just share their URL, everything is public access. They already had a scandal like this in like 2019.

    A guy used precisely the same pixel crop I made from a piece of artwork I used for my private copypaste server on Discord to try to creep me out in 2021, tried to convince me he was a fed after me (didn’t work), I just kept explaining to him why Ukraine was going to lose until he gave up. He was just so mad he couldn’t get me to stop posting in a public server about geopolitics haha.

    • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      :/ I usually don’t do stuff like this but it was special case spur of the moment hope the gdpr request is success

      • ivy@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        7 months ago

        I’m so confused tbqh but i haven’t had coffee yet

        • 𝓔𝓶𝓶𝓲𝓮@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          7 months ago

          I mean I rarely post sensitive images or any images online really, it was just kinda special occasion to post this in what looked like a very safe space and now I have to fill this request based on European law article 17 ‘the right to be forgotten’

          • ivy@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            7 months ago

            Oh yes exactly the way that regulators try to hide corporate investors behind these fig leaves like spending 5 minutes clicking switches to protect sensitive data otherwise whoops! we sold the location of a mother trying to escape stalking from her ex-husband! Whoops, we gave away all the personal information of these schoolchildren to anyone who could find it! Well, we gotta make a living somehow!