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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is against the law, and not unlike a ransomware attack in severity and legality. Someone should go to jail over this.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

It's not free, they ask you to buy credits. I didn't buy any so don't know how much they cost, but just mentioning to make this clear.

I assume anyone who's set their profile to private without sharing apps, external links, etc, and only go to private servers wouldn't have much to worry about against this scenario?