A Lost Media Mystery
The 404 Media Podcast
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Discord's Privacy Nightmare: Spy Pet and Data Scraping
The chapter reveals the alarming use of a software tool, Spy Pet, to scrape and sell user messages from Discord, shedding light on privacy concerns. It explores the diverse communities using Discord, ranging from AI companies to non-consensual porn groups, and the risks of data scraping from these servers. The discussion delves into the ethical dilemmas of recontextualizing public data without consent, the deceptive practices of bot users, and Discord's challenges in dealing with malicious bots.
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