ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
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From Discord's age verification page, under "Privacy and Data Security":
https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/30326565624343-How-to-Complete-Age-Verification-on-Discord
https://archive.is/FBqo5
So is that a lie?
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.
It always was and it will always be. Data is the real commodity and Discord had no intention of wasting it when they could profit from it. This applies to ALL "free" products offered by corporations. You are and have always been the product.
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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.
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."
They're ghosts
Revolt is an option. But it needs people and communities.
Is revolt an online platform or a general instruction?
both is good
Yeah it's a good discord clone. Apparently it's renamed to Stoat now
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?
I'm sorry, was Discord created by non-capitalists at a time when fascism was taking over?
The situations and time of their creation are not the same.
Oh thanks I didn’t see this about the rebrand.
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.
What features in Discord do you want in an alternative that would allow you to switch?
For me, being able to be in a voice call with people and easily sharing my screen or camera is pretty much #1. And that's going to be hard for smaller services to compete with :/
It would not be hard. It just takes time and know-how.
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.
How surprising that a predictable (and predicted) thing happened!
I thought those don't get saved? 🤔 I wonder why I never actually believed that?
It's the UK users who didn't find a work around
Well that doesn’t seem very secure. It’s almost like this is more about liability and regulation rather than actual security.
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lol didn’t take long