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It should be noted that most of this data (including emails and phone numbers) is published publicly by the influencers themselves. This headline is clickbait.
by downandout 7y ago
It should be noted that most of this data (including emails and phone numbers) is published publicly by the influencers themselves. This headline is clickbait. Thousands of scrapers are constantly running all around the world, scraping any data that you choose to make public on social networks. Don’t make your phone number or email public if you don’t like this.
- HNLurker2 7y agoI would like to know the phone number and location though.
- downandout 7y agoMany influencers include this info in their bio.
- benzible 7y agoClickbait implies that this is intentionally deceptive. I think this is just uniformed reporting. This is made even more clear from this tweet by the author: https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1130525216038359041 https://twitter.com/zackwhittaker/status/1130525216038359041 "What's curious here is that the data contained non-public data — including phone numbers and email addresses of associated Instagram accounts — which, logic suggests it could've only gotten from Facebook."