Discord slammed over age verification face scan controversy
www.newsweek.com
Discord users are unhappy with the platform's decision to roll out age verification requirements for adult user accounts starting in March.

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.

    • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      12·
      11 hours ago

      You can jf you join the discord and search lmao, but I already said that the issue is discoveraviloty outside of the discord environment so I’m not arguing that point.

      • TheSeveralJourneysOfReemus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        8 hours ago

        I’m not making an account on a shitty app to do something that used to be easy and free on the open web. Stop it. Leave discord and don’t create monopolies. And don’t make the mistake to think that your chatroom is so cool and important that it should replace a consolidate form of communication.

        • Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          11·
          8 hours ago

          I never said you should, I’m literally arguing the opposite and saying that’s exactly the problem with discord jfc.

          Edit: the problem with discord is not that its real time communication or information is not findable in the app, it IS, its that the information is not available outside that environment.