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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 jonplackett »

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are.

And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

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

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Post by Iulioh »

jonplackett wrote: post #861

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are. And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

At this point might as well...

There is a news story every 12 minutes for a company that leaked IDs

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

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Post by Arkanosis »

jonplackett wrote: post #861

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are. And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

That would either mean you can tell the device to lie (which makes it useless), or that you don't own the device you use (which makes it unacceptable).

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

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Post by absolutevibe »

jonplackett wrote: post #861

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are. And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

Apple already has this https://developer.apple.com/documentation/declaredagerange/ I saw Claude app request it the other day.

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

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Post by tom1337 »

jonplackett wrote: post #861

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are. And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

Apple actually has this already. For countries that support IDs in Apple Wallet there is a "Verify with Wallet API" [1] and for other countries the app developer can get the age range from the iCloud Account [2] - but that is not verified with any legal authority and only based on user input.

1) https://developer.apple.com/wallet/get-started-with-verify-w... 2) https://developer.apple.com/documentation/declaredagerange/

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

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Post by phatfish »

bilekas wrote: post #406
accrual wrote: post #23

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…

Until we have some kind of "One Time ID Verification" service that would work, the ID will never be deleted. Or a hash of the info or some kind of identifiable info.

Humm yeah, like a government digital ID of some sort. Except people go mental about that, so sending scanned copies of my personal ID documents to every bank/solicitor/estate agent/mortgage broker/random internet service it is then...

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

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Post by jonplackett »

Iulioh wrote: post #863
jonplackett wrote: post #861

I think Apple / Google need to implement verification on the device - we already accept the device knows who we are. And then social media platforms should be able to have the device confirm the user is over 18 and that’s all they need to know.

At this point might as well... There is a news story every 12 minutes for a company that leaked IDs

I really think on device verification is the way to go - and I don’t even see why we need to use ID.

Parents are always in control of a kids device. Just mandate devices have a child mode that parents can activate and have it send a ‘this is a child’ flag to all websites and apps.

But this assumes this isn’t all about ID checking everyone online, which is what it’s really about.

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