22 pointsby kristianp2 hours ago5 comments
  • Shankan hour ago
    > Every record has gam_audiences and audiences_member_of populated, Google Ad Manager audience segments, with values like coach-nudge experiment groups, trial eligibility, lapsed-user cohorts and rating-band targeting.

    It sure seems like the evidence doesn't point to scraping to me.

  • sidrag22an hour ago
    > The data had been pulled by abusing the platform’s find-friends feature

    Sounds like the find-friends feature shouldn't allow access to the majority of that data unless the "friend" accepts, don't think the "scraper" got 7mil accepts just because they had access to emails... To me this is 100% a breach, even more so because its already happened once years ago to 700k, and they changed nothing to prevent it.

    • samus33 minutes ago
      It might very well be possible that there were API endpoints that exposed way too much information. I also think that this wouldn't qualify as "scraping".
  • TheSpacerr31 minutes ago
    Basically our data is free.
  • ed_mercer34 minutes ago
    email? Is a user's email up for grabs just like that?
  • unixheroan hour ago
    Is scraping wrong that, is the question.