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Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out (stackdiary.com)

submitted 8 months ago by skilledtothegills@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The service offers the ability to purchase credits through cryptocurrencies, as well as offers the data for AI training purposes.

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[–] eyeon@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago

the content being scraped is from users, they do not control what bots are added to servers.

It's much more like the Cambridge Analytics scandal in that users posted content that was shared with friends but not explicitly shared publicly, but those friends then granted a third party access to all of the data.