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The scraping incidents with Clubhouse aren't really comparable with those of Facebook. All the Clubhouse profiles are public and searchable to everyone from within the app, so it's not really a big difference to privacy if they get scrape and people can search and look them up on a 3rd party website. By contrast, many profiles on Facebook are unlisted / private, and it's a major issue that the profile information was searchable by default via phone number, allowing for the mass scraping of non-public profiles.



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