Discord has taken action after a report earlier this month detailed a web of accounts that were tracking users and archiving messages on a massive scale.
The report, by 404 Media, claimed that over 4bn public messages – including voice data – of up to 620 million users had been scooped up by bots across some of Discord’s biggest servers, including for games such as Minecraft and Among Us.
This data had then been packaged up for sale – for as little as $5 (£4) – by the now-defunct website Spy.pet, which advertised the data as a way for companies to train AI models or for “federal agents looking for a new source of intel”.
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