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sherlock-project / sherlock

Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks
https://sherlockproject.xyz
MIT License
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Why? #1832

Open gamer191 opened 1 year ago

gamer191 commented 1 year ago

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Question

Since this is obviously not a commercial project, and most people would consider it privacy invasive, I'm genuinely curious why you folks make it? Do you consider it ethical?

acattoXD commented 1 year ago

why not lol

gamer191 commented 1 year ago

why not lol

Do you not consider this program to be privacy-invasive?

netc4ts commented 11 months ago

Do you not consider this program to be privacy-invasive?

People willingly make their profile public and when random people view other public profiles related to them now its privacy-invasive?

akaye47 commented 11 months ago

I just want to go back to work, I still don’t really understand this site. Ok?

gamer191 commented 11 months ago

Do you not consider this program to be privacy-invasive?

People willingly make their profile public and when random people view other public profiles related to them now its privacy-invasive?

Indeed, if those people are trying to locate every website they've ever signed up to (which is stalking imo). If people "willingly make their profile public", then you could just message them and ask them for a list of websites they've signed up for. The truth is that most people don't consider that when they make their profile public, and that's precisely the reason this project exists.