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by Nextgrid 1447 days ago
> the mass creation of accounts solely for scraping purposes.

Those accounts wouldn't be allowed to view private data though unless they friend/follow the person first, so they'll only still be limited to data the account holders intend to be public and available to anyone.

There's also no evidence that the scraped data was aggregated at scale or commingled in any way, so even if customers provided their actual credentials which grant them access to private data of their friends, the scraper didn't share it with anyone else but them.