Starting in early March, the platform will place every account into a default “teen-appropriate” experience unless it has proof that users are adults.

The move has brought widespread criticism from Discord users, who are citing privacy and security concerns following a recent breach of a third-party vendor that ended up exposing around 70,000 government ID images used to verify the age of Discord users.

  • nosuchanon@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    I mean uploading your government ID or having to share your biometric data via video is also just as terrible. There is no guarantee that these companies will not fuck it up sell your data get hacked etc. Instead of an ID number linked to you and they now have a copy of your identity.

    • Rooster326@programming.dev
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      7 hours ago

      Right and attaching it to your phone just means you click. “Send Daved Video” instead of “Record”.

      They are still going to have it for their own records