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The platforms get in a scrape

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The platforms get in a scrape

What Facebook, Clubhouse, LinkedIn, Clearview AI, and NYU have in common

Casey Newton
Apr 14, 2021
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The platforms get in a scrape

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Lately we keep seeing the same kind of headline pop up about big social networks.

“Facebook Had Years to Fix the Flaw That Leaked 500M Users’ Data,” Wired reported on Friday. “Clubhouse data leak: 1.3 million scraped user records leaked online for free,” CyberNews told us on Saturday. “500M LinkedIn accounts leaked,” Security tol…

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