A community bot may see people who never chose it
Kofi Ampomah and Tu Le studied what user reviews say about third-party Discord bots. Their early paper says they sorted the reviews and checked the labels by hand. A bot may see data from members who did not install it. Review signals do not show how often harm occurs across all bots.
What the source reports
Kofi Ampomah and Tu Le studied what user reviews say about third-party bots on Discord. Their published abstract says they sorted review signals and checked the labels by hand. A person may install a bot for a group. Other members may then have data visible to that bot, though they never picked it. Those members matter when the group weighs privacy. The review labels do not tell us how many bots caused harm. They also do not prove that one named bot read data from one named member. This account is based on the published abstract and the digest, not a full review of the paper.
Original source
- Title
- Measuring Users' Security and Privacy Concerns About Third-Party Community Bots on Discord
- Author
- Kofi Ampomah, Tu Le
- Publication
- arXiv
- Date
- Tuesday, October 27, 2026