網紅的藏寶箱Francis Fong Po-kiu, honorary president of the Hong Kong Information Technology Federation, urged social media platforms to upgrade their security mechanisms.
“If it is data scraping, there is little we can do,” he said. “But if the security issues are at the server level, those big companies should be responsible. Otherwise, no matter how much users step up privacy protection, it is of no use.”
Fong, also a Clubhouse user, said on Sunday he had not received any notification from the firm about the scraping.
He said previously internet scrapers were using software to extract publicly viewable personal data for their own purposes. Some social media companies might not consider scraping to be a leak or security issue, he said.
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