“Researchers scrape thousands of hours of news footage from their TVs!” is about as big a deal, honestly.
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simple@lemm.ee 4 weeks agoThis isn’t even them scraping private chats and small servers, they just scraped public servers in the discovery tab. None of that information was ever private, and every user can browse the chat history there.
micka190@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
taiyang@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
In other words-- your sexting is safe, friends.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
It also includes deleted messages. And they refuse to delete things when someone opts out.
donuts@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
It also includes deleted messages. And they refuse to delete things when someone opts out
Deleted messages are not included. Neither the public nor the API allows you to read deleted messages
Upon joining a server, users gain access to all non-deleted historical content within public channels, and the same is valid for data retrieval using their API.
MoonRaven@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
Excellent point if searchcord used the api. They created unmarked bot accounts that save all the messages.
donuts@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Searchcord yes, but not the researchers from the headline
donuts@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah, exactly. It may sound scary or like a violation of privacy, but there is no privacy when posting to public online areas.