The cyber-security and privacy world alight with arguments about whether or not we should be worried about this growing trend of mega scrapes. and the databases aren’t being created by breaking into the servers or websites of social networks. In non-practical sense, most of the data being compiled could be found by simply picking through individual social media profile pages one-by-one. Although of course it would take multiple lifetimes to gather as much data together, as the hackers are able to do but the datastores are largely constructed by scraping the public-facing surface of platforms using automatic programmes to take whatever information is freely available about users. Do you think that the social media companies need to educate people on how much information they should share ?

