Right-wing social network Parler was taken offline on January 11. But before that happened, online activists scraped and archived all of their data.
A hacker who has asked to be called by her Twitter handle, @donk_enby, has scraped and archived data from the social network Parler, which bills itself as the “premier free speech social network.” Parler was a major meeting and planning place for people planning the deadly storming of the US capital last week. It was removed from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) for violating those companies’ terms of service, shortly after the violent insurrection.
The scrape includes profile data, user information, videos (including geolocation of some), deleted posts, and information about who had admin rights for certain groups. It also includes information collected by the network for its “Verified Parler Citizen” program — similar to the “blue check” used for verified users on more mainstream social media sites — which included government issued IDs.
In a tweet on January 11, @donk_enby clarified that “only things that were available publicly via the web were archived. i don't have you [sic] e-mail address, phone or credit card number. unless you posted it yourself on parler.”
According to her tweets, @donk_enby was in the process of scraping Parler on January 9 when it was announced that AWS would stop hosting the network on the morning of January 11. At that point, she doubled down on her efforts and recruited other ..
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