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.
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.
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.
For me, being able to be in a voice call with people and easily sharing my screen or camera is pretty much #1. And that's going to be hard for smaller services to compete with :/
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?
They're doing it for control and to remove the anonymity of online accounts. The leaks are just the cost of doing business to them. Discord might not be saving every ID and associating it to the account name/etc, but the NSA/etc definitely is.
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.
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floofloof@lemmy.ca · 72 pts · 335d
From Discord's age verification page, under "Privacy and Data Security":
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343-How-to-Complete-Age-Verification-on-Discord
https://archive.is/FBqo5
So is that a lie?
vollkorntomate@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 335d
I wonder if they could face legal consequences for this
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 335d
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.
JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 14 pts · 335d
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.
nixus@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 334d
always_has_been_astronaut.jpg
OwlPaste@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 335d
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.
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 335d
They lied then They said they weren't saving the pics, deleting them when verification was done.
I wish there was a Discord alternative
moopet@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 334d
** slips a note under your door that reads, "IRC" **
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · -3 pts · 334d
IRC died, over six years ago
nixus@anarchist.nexus · 7 pts · 334d
/me looks around at his multiple IRC servers...
"Huh, I didn't know you guys had (aparently) died."
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 333d
They're ghosts
RiceBowl@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 335d
Revolt is an option. But it needs people and communities.
prex@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 335d
Is revolt an online platform or a general instruction?
gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 335d
both is good
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 334d
Yeah it's a good discord clone. Apparently it's renamed to Stoat now
gratux@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 335d
it's now named Stoat https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
RiceBowl@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 334d
Oh thanks I didn’t see this about the rebrand.
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 334d
That's stupid
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 0 pts · 334d
Is it stupid to adopt an innocuous name at a time when governments are cracking down on all sorts of things and trying to be faschie again?
"Revolt" doesn't exactly say, "don't 'investigate' me government, I promise there's nothing suspicious."
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 0 pts · 334d
And what does Discord say?
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 0 pts · 332d
I'm sorry, was Discord created by non-capitalists at a time when fascism was taking over?
The situations and time of their creation are not the same.
tatann@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 335d
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
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 335d
I am trying element, but I can't find the people there... I found Blahaj's thing doe
tatann@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
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)
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 334d
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.
survirtual@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d
What features in Discord do you want in an alternative that would allow you to switch?
SpacetimeMachine@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 334d
For me, being able to be in a voice call with people and easily sharing my screen or camera is pretty much #1. And that's going to be hard for smaller services to compete with :/
survirtual@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 334d
It would not be hard. It just takes time and know-how.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 26 pts · 335d
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?
MotoAsh@piefed.social · 1 pts · 334d
They're doing it for control and to remove the anonymity of online accounts. The leaks are just the cost of doing business to them. Discord might not be saving every ID and associating it to the account name/etc, but the NSA/etc definitely is.
net00@lemmy.today · 15 pts · 335d
TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 335d
I don't use Discord very much. Why do they have ID photos?
VonReposti@feddit.dk · 35 pts · 335d
Age verification. Why? Because some politicians have a boner for control.
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
The boner is for something else, since they can't stop talking about the "children".
drrodneymckay_@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 335d
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.
Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 335d
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.
kbal@fedia.io · 6 pts · 335d
They bought into the "age verification" scam.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 334d
How surprising that a predictable (and predicted) thing happened!
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 334d
I thought those don't get saved? 🤔 I wonder why I never actually believed that?
redxef@feddit.org · 4 pts · 334d
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 334d
It's the UK users who didn't find a work around
henfredemars@infosec.pub · 4 pts · 335d
Well that doesn’t seem very secure. It’s almost like this is more about liability and regulation rather than actual security.
hypnicjerk@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 335d
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 335d