User data articles
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Discord Takes Aim At Bots Mining User Data
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...
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Disney+Hotstar collects audio data from users’ microphone: Should you be concerned?
The TV SDK (Software Development Kit) can be enabled by users only after granting Disney+Hotstar the permission to access the microphone on their devices.
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Seam wants to make customer data accessible to every business user
As data access becomes increasingly tied to business success, making data available to all business users, regardless of their data-wrangling skills, has grown in importance. The founders of Seam, an early-stage startup, experienced the need to make data more accessible firsthand when they were at Okta, and decided to launch a company to solve this […] © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.