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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by Quillbert182 »

RupertSalt wrote: post #14
kmeisthax wrote: post #11

Any age verification process that does not consider the age of the account as a verification option is a data trap, plain and simple.

How does anyone know whether a family is engaging in that time-honored tradition of passing down accounts from grandfather, to father, to son, to child, and their posterity, in perpetuity? Seriously though, unless you have positively identified the person who created the account in the first place, you have 0% chance of knowing whether it is the same person using it today. Gamers sell their high-level accounts all th…

But under that argument, you would have to prove your age on a regular basis, the plan right now appears to be that each account would only need to do so once.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by pixl97 »

haritha-j wrote: post #15

> and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. I didn't even realise discord scans all the images that i send and recieve.

Really I've come to the conclusion that anything I send out of my LAN is probably kept on a server forever and ingested by LLMs, and indexed to be used against me in perpetuity at this point, regardless of what any terms or conditions of the site I'm using actually says.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by accrual »

Here's the October 2025 Discord data breach mentioned at the end of the article:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo

> Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack.

However, their senior director states in this Verge article:

> The ID is immediately deleted. We do not keep any information around like your name, the city that you live in, if you used a birth certificate or something else, any of that information.

Why they didn't do that the first time?

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by palata »

haritha-j wrote: post #15

> and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. I didn't even realise discord scans all the images that i send and recieve.

Everything that is not end-to-end encrypted understandably has to do it.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by RegnisGnaw »

RupertSalt wrote: post #14
kmeisthax wrote: post #11

Any age verification process that does not consider the age of the account as a verification option is a data trap, plain and simple.

How does anyone know whether a family is engaging in that time-honored tradition of passing down accounts from grandfather, to father, to son, to child, and their posterity, in perpetuity? Seriously though, unless you have positively identified the person who created the account in the first place, you have 0% chance of knowing whether it is the same person using it today. Gamers sell their high-level accounts all th…

No law or regulation is ever 100% effective in real life. Income tax is not collected 100% effectively. Should we not do it? Criminals are not caught 100% of the time, should we not do it?

Of course this won't be 100% effective, maybe 80-90% effective. That's all they need and expect from this system.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by palata »

pixl97 wrote: post #22
haritha-j wrote: post #15

> and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. I didn't even realise discord scans all the images that i send and recieve.

Really I've come to the conclusion that anything I send out of my LAN is probably kept on a server forever and ingested by LLMs, and indexed to be used against me in perpetuity at this point, regardless of what any terms or conditions of the site I'm using actually says.

To be fair, the terms and conditions probably say that they can do whatever they want with that data :-).

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by ravenstine »

Haven't cared about Discord in a long time. In fact I'm glad they're continuing to shoot themselves in the foot.

During the pandemic, I was on a Discord server for folks to socialize and blow off steam about the whole situation. Yes, there were some anti-vaxx wackos, but overall the place was civil and balanced, and I met some interesting people through it. We cracked jokes and it was a little bit of fun in a tough time.

One day I came to discover that Discord had banned the server for allegedly violating... something. I wish I had written down everyone's emails because I permanently lost contact with a bunch of friends in an instant.

I never signed in to Discord again, in spite of times where some other social group wanted to use it. I vowed never to use Discord again. Fuck those guys and the Teslas they rode in on. I hope this ID verification thing is another big step towards their irrelevancy.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by mapt »

jsheard wrote: post #17
haritha-j wrote: post #15

> and will see content filters for any content Discord detects as graphic or sensitive. I didn't even realise discord scans all the images that i send and recieve.

Pretty much every non-E2EE platform is scanning every uploaded image for CSAM at least, that's a baseline ass-covering measure.

And E2EE platforms like Mega are now being censored on some platforms specifically because they're E2EE, and so the name itself must be treated as CSAM.

As people who want to talk about words like "megabytes" or "megapixels" or "megaphones" or "Megaman" or "Megan" on Facebook are finding out.

Re: Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month

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Post by accrual »

Rooster61 wrote: post #6

The sad thing is that I think many people will en masse pony up their ID or snapshot without a second thought. I'm not sure if enough people will refuse to actually force Discord to back off this decision (unless their idea is to grab as much data as possible at once with the understanding that they are going to back off either way).

Especially if it's presented as a pop-up upon launching the app that suggests the user won't be able to talk to their friends/servers without showing ID. Carefully worded language would could spur some % of users to panic at losing years of history and immediately show ID. Folks with less privacy discernment hear "jump" and reply "how high".
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