Technique
technique:data_scraping
Also: scraping
Automated collection of personal information from social-media sites, applications, and other sources.
Automated collection of personal information from social-media sites, applications, and other sources.
“there are companies that go on social media and scrape all that data”
| Direction | Predicate | Other entity | Origin | EP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| incoming | USES | USDoD | Explicit | 177 |
| incoming | USES | Clearview AI | Explicit | 177 |
| incoming | USES | National Public Data | Explicit | 177 |
| incoming | INVOLVES | National Public Data breach | Attributed | 177 |
USDoD USES data scraping
USDoD used a Python script to retrieve InfraGard members' contact information through the site's API.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“USDoD asked a friend to write him a Python script to grab the data”
“he used it to steal every InfraGard member’s contact information”
Clearview AI USES data scraping
Clearview AI is described as scraping photographs and information from major social media websites.
Explicit Confidence 98% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“They were raiding major social media websites. They’d take Facebook, for example, grab every picture and bit of information they could”
National Public Data USES data scraping
National Public Data collected personal information by scraping or acquiring data from brokers, marketing lists, social media, and apps.
Explicit Confidence 99% · Jack Rhysider EP 177 Details
“Sal either bought or scraped data from other data brokers, subscription and marketing lists, loyalty and rewards programs, social media, and other apps.”
National Public Data breach INVOLVES data scraping
The episode describes the breach as involving a scraping company whose purpose was to find and aggregate information about people.
Attributed Confidence 96% · Speaker3 EP 177 Details
“The problem with the NPD data breach is that it is a scraping company that was designed to find out everything it can about you.”