Discord has decommission the service Spy Pet, which is used for scraping, and it sold more than 3 billion messages, and data for more than 600 million users. All of the accounts linked have been deleted. The decision of the company in the u.s. came after an investigation by the 404 Media.
The theft of the data, in violation of the GDPR
Joseph Cox from 404 Meida spotted Spy Forged in the middle of April. The service is being used to collect and back up the message to be posted on more than 14,000 servers, Discord. Its owner said that the access to the database, the message is sold to anyone who is willing to pay for the kriptovaluta, including law enforcement agencies, and companies who need to train models of the generation of HE was.
Scraping of the message is done through a robots. Discord had announced the initiation of an investigation, to verify that violations of the terms and conditions of the service provider and the direction of the community. In that case, we will be implementing the necessary actions. About two weeks later, the u.s. blocked the robots and shut all of the accounts linked to the service. Discord is also planning to take legal action.
The home page of the website Spy Pet, also it is no longer available after the domain has been suspended. The owner stated that he had no intention of ngacmonte to the user. However, the data that was found in the Kiwi Farms, a new notorious for support doxxing, which are aimed at women, and the community of LGBTQ.
Spy Pet is broken too-at least the first three articles of the GDPR, with scraping without the consent, being in violation of the right to demand the deletion of the data, and the collection of data from minors.
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