I thought those don't get saved? π€ I wonder why I never actually believed that?
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How surprising that a predictable (and predicted) thing happened!
That number seems very low compared to Discords users, my guess is, that those are the photos of not yet verified accounts. Contrary to some commenters speculating that they lied in their FAQ. On another note: You can think of Discord what you want, but your politicians mandated age verification, not them. Direct your anger/outrage/whatver at them.
It's the UK users who didn't find a work around
They lied then They said they weren't saving the pics, deleting them when verification was done.
I wish there was a Discord alternative
** slips a note under your door that reads, "IRC" **
IRC died, over six years ago
/me looks around at his multiple IRC servers...
"Huh, I didn't know you guys had (aparently) died."
If you want to just text-chat and/or voice-chat with some friends, Element(Matrix) works well
But if you're a gamer looking for bigger communities, I don't know one
I am trying element, but I can't find the people there... I found Blahaj's thing doe
I didn't try to find people on it, I only managed to convert my (real life) gamer friends
Converting my non-gamer friends will be hard, they're still on SMS/MMS or worse (Whatsapp)
Oh, they did that? That's IMHO a thousand times worse than just getting hacked...
May they get beaten to pulp by privacy lawyers in court.
Revolt is an option. But it needs people and communities.
it's now named Stoat https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
That's stupid
Is it stupid to adopt an innocuous name at a time when governments are cracking down on all sorts of things and trying to be faschie again?
"Revolt" doesn't exactly say, "don't 'investigate' me government, I promise there's nothing suspicious."
And what does Discord say?
Oh thanks I didnβt see this about the rebrand.
Is revolt an online platform or a general instruction?
Yeah it's a good discord clone. Apparently it's renamed to Stoat now
both is good
From Discord's age verification page, under "Privacy and Data Security":
Q: Is my data stored when I use Face Scan or Scan ID verification?
A: Discord and k-ID do not permanently store personal identity documents or your video selfies. The image of your identity document and the ID face match selfie are deleted directly after your age group is confirmed, and the video selfie used for facial age estimation never leaves your device.
So is that a lie?
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I wonder if they could face legal consequences for this
Companies suffer no consequences and nobody goes to jail for destroying real people's lifes. It's how businesses work. Do it and apologize later motto or something like that. At best some small fine.
is this not from the stolen support tickets? some of which were related to id verification? 70k users is a very low number for discord.
What pisses me off the most is that people can get life-long troubles from leaks like these. Identity theft, scams, etc. Yet these fuckers only say "we sorry" and that's it.
I just now dug up my discord account and nuked it. They won't see me using their shit again. Thankfully I've not given them any ID or data.
Wow really? The thing that everyone was warning the dumbass tech-illiterate politicians who pushed this bullshit law through would happen, happened? Wow I am just so incredibly shocked, who could have foreseen this coming, apart from everyone?
They're doing it for control and to remove the anonymity of online accounts. The leaks are just the cost of doing business to them. Discord might not be saving every ID and associating it to the account name/etc, but the NSA/etc definitely is.
I don't use Discord very much. Why do they have ID photos?
Age verification. Why? Because some politicians have a boner for control.
The boner is for something else, since they can't stop talking about the "children".
I think is is related to the new age verification systems. Everyone was saying this is a bad idea but governments are basically making it required for some of these services.
The UK - along with several US states - is enforcing a bunch of age verification bullshit to "protect the children." Not that the tech companies have pushed back on this in the slightest; they love that it let's them collect more data on users. But they couldn't get away with it if it wasn't a legal requirement.
They bought into the "age verification" scam.
lol didnβt take long
Well that doesnβt seem very secure. Itβs almost like this is more about liability and regulation rather than actual security.
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