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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts (mashable.com)

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Reddit removes years of chat and message archives from users' accounts::undefined

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[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

They want to sell it to AI companies, so they need to make sure they can’t scrape it.

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[–] kereshnull@infosec.pub 1 point 3 years ago

You cannot sell active data without explicit consent but what if data that has been "deleted" accidentally gets shared with a 3rd party 🙈

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[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 1 point 3 years ago

Heo the hell do you scrape private chat logs? lol. Get a grip.

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