• Spy Pet shutdown: A service selling access to a large database of Discord messages and user details seems to have been shut down. 404 Media reports that Spy Pet's website is unavailable and its offerings are mostly shut down. Discord's safety team has been investigating and banned affiliated accounts.
• Violations: Scraping Discord services and self-botting are violations of Discord's Terms of Service and Community Guidelines. Discord may take legal action. Server administrators can adjust server permissions to prevent such monitoring.
• Kiwi Farms ties and GDPR violations: The number of servers monitored by Spy Pet has been fluctuating. The site's administrator admitted to Discord banning some bots. There is a likely link to Kiwi Farms, a notorious hub for doxxing and online harassment. Spy Pet is likely in violation of the EU's GDPR, including the "right to be forgotten" in Article 17 and may draw scrutiny and legal action for gathering data from possible child accounts. Ars was unable to reach the Spy Pet administrator by email and Telegram. Their last message said the domain was suspended and a backup was being set up.