Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data scraped and exposed

Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by oooshha on Monday May 20, 2019 @03:40PM (#19964258)

Interesting... Some of the "influencer search" platforms eg heepsy allow users to download a limited number of email/phone details for influencers. I always wondered how they managed to get this info in bulk to begin witht

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Re:Millions of Instagram influencers had their contact data ... by r_singh on Tuesday May 21, 2019 @01:21AM (#19967721)

I mean just like Twitter data is public, I always assumed that public Instagram profiles are public data too. Everyone can see their posts, likes, comments, followers and following, so what stops a computer from doing so?

Update: it's against FB's T&C to scrape and store this publicly viewable data. Quite convenient, they'll only sue / take action when a rule breaker becomes non-trivial in size or a nuisance

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