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Discord advises UK users that they "may be part of an experiment" where instead of their age verification data never leaving their phone, it will now actually leave their phone (www.eurogamer.net)

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[–] MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 10 points 16 hours ago

They can't. Of course, they can't really do it on a remote server either but they choose to pretend they can. If they really wanted to, they could run it through a machine learning system on your phone and just send the result to discord. That wouldn't be secure, strictly speaking, but it would be good enough for this purpose. The kind of model they could send to a phone wouldn't be very reliable, but that's the problem they have anyway so nothing of value is lost