In recent days, the work of has caused a lot of discussion Spy.petservice that worked by extracting data from Discord and then resell them, circumventing most of the rules regarding privacy and confidentiality. The fuss over his actions, apparently, led to a decisive reaction from the “victim” platform of this system.
The site in question began its activities last November, collecting messages from over 14.000 server Discordfor a total of almost 620 million users involved in spite of themselves. Spy.pet, once collected this information, resold it to Police, private or companies that trained models Artificial intelligence. After the scandal that broke out online, Discord took the reins of the situation and effectively blocked this type of activity on its platform.
The messaging app, in fact, released an official statement, announcing the elimination of Spy.pet due to the violation of its Terms of Service and of community guidelines. In addition to the ban of accounts linked to the activities of this platform, the intention to evaluate is also announced lawsuits appropriate.
Spy.pet: the (permanent?) stop of Discord arrives
According to the claim, the data scraping operations were carried out by several accounts. These accessed Discord servers open to the public (or at least with an easy-to-get invitation link). Once Spy.pet accounts accessed the chats, they collected any type of data present on them.
Although, in all likelihood, no user offered sensitive data on a public chat, the operations of this platform remain a serious attack on privacy. At this point it must be understood how and if Discord will demonstrate its intention to act seriously towards Spy.pet’s actions.
On the other hand, maintaining your privacy online is a real challenge these days. Although there are specific tools capable of offering adequate guarantees, users must always remain vigilant and avoid sharing sensitive data, both on Discord and on any other platform.