Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet, a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and selling access to that data for as little as $5. After investigating the matter, Discord has announced that the accounts connected to that repository have been banned and the company is considering legal action. According to an April 26 404 Media story, Spy Pet had been trawling roughly 14,000 Discord servers for a few months now, collecting tons of...
Bot-driven service was also connected to targeted harassment site Kiwi Farms.
Grindr is being sued. The LGBTQ+ dating app is accused of sharing its users’ medical data with advertisers. This data includes their HIV status. UK law firm Austen Hays filed the claim at London’s High Court yesterday. The class action lawsuit represents hundreds of users of the app. Austen Hays claims that US-based Grindr breached UK data protection law by selling sensitive data to third parties without users’ consent. Aside from medical facts, this includes info about people’s...
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The Federal Communications Commission announced the penalties this week after investigations found the four carriers had been feeding customer location data to shady data brokers and aggregators. Those firms then resold that sensitive info to pretty much any third party willing to pay up, no questions asked about how itRead Entire Article
FCC finalizes $196M penalties for location-data sales revealed in 2018.
Instead, it plans to lease SW Division site back; sale will 'free resources to reinvest' BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Crux Fermentation Project announced Monday that it's selling the property that has served as the brewery’s iconic Bend tasting room since 2012 -- but only with the intention of leasing it back from the new owners.
Happy first of the month! There are many events to participate in or attend to celebrate Cinco de Mayo this week in Denver.