From Discord’s age verification page, under “Privacy and Data Security”:
Q: Is my data stored when I use Face Scan or Scan ID verification?
A: Discord and k-ID do not permanently store personal identity documents or your video selfies. The image of your identity document and the ID face match selfie are deleted directly after your age group is confirmed, and the video selfie used for facial age estimation never leaves your device.
So is that a lie?
I wonder if they could face legal consequences for this
Companies suffer no consequences and nobody goes to jail for destroying real people’s lifes. It’s how businesses work. Do it and apologize later motto or something like that. At best some small fine.
So is that a lie?
It always was and it will always be. Data is the real commodity and Discord had no intention of wasting it when they could profit from it. This applies to ALL “free” products offered by corporations. You are and have always been the product.
is this not from the stolen support tickets? some of which were related to id verification? 70k users is a very low number for discord.
They lied then They said they weren’t saving the pics, deleting them when verification was done.
I wish there was a Discord alternative
Revolt is an option. But it needs people and communities.
it’s now named Stoat https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
Oh thanks I didn’t see this about the rebrand.
That’s stupid
** slips a note under your door that reads, “IRC” **
IRC died, over six years ago
If you want to just text-chat and/or voice-chat with some friends, Element(Matrix) works well
But if you’re a gamer looking for bigger communities, I don’t know one
I am trying element, but I can’t find the people there… I found Blahaj’s thing doe
I didn’t try to find people on it, I only managed to convert my (real life) gamer friends
Converting my non-gamer friends will be hard, they’re still on SMS/MMS or worse (Whatsapp)
Oh, they did that? That’s IMHO a thousand times worse than just getting hacked…
May they get beaten to pulp by privacy lawyers in court.
Wow really? The thing that everyone was warning the dumbass tech-illiterate politicians who pushed this bullshit law through would happen, happened? Wow I am just so incredibly shocked, who could have foreseen this coming, apart from everyone?
How surprising that a predictable (and predicted) thing happened!
I don’t use Discord very much. Why do they have ID photos?
I think is is related to the new age verification systems. Everyone was saying this is a bad idea but governments are basically making it required for some of these services.
The UK - along with several US states - is enforcing a bunch of age verification bullshit to “protect the children.” Not that the tech companies have pushed back on this in the slightest; they love that it let’s them collect more data on users. But they couldn’t get away with it if it wasn’t a legal requirement.
I thought those don’t get saved? 🤔 I wonder why I never actually believed that?
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Well that doesn’t seem very secure. It’s almost like this is more about liability and regulation rather than actual security.
lol didn’t take long
