Hack Club has been handling children's data for 4 years without a privacy policy

Re:Hack Club has been handling children's data for 4 years w... by ForHackernews on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:17AM (#45914553)

> i discovered that neighbourhood was exposing thousands of users' full legal names through an unprotected API endpoint.

Headline really buries the lede: this is the issue, not some missing ToS boilerplate.

The map is not the territory, the security policy is not the security.

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Re:Hack Club has been handling children's data for 4 years w... by Benjamin_Dobell on Thursday November 13, 2025 @08:22AM (#45914599)

I'm not going to pretend this is an easy read. So I wouldn't blame you if you stopped early. However, there's a section titled "the surveillance infrastructure (orpheus engine)" which claims that children's private information is being distributed to third-parties without consent.

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Re:Hack Club has been handling children's data for 4 years w... by VEBee on Thursday November 13, 2025 @09:53PM (#45923347)

Orpheus engine is publicly available at https://github.com/hackclub/orpheus-engine.

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