ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
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ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says
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I thought those don't get saved? 🤔 I wonder why I never actually believed that?
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How surprising that a predictable (and predicted) thing happened!
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They lied then They said they weren't saving the pics, deleting them when verification was done.
I wish there was a Discord alternative
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Revolt is an option. But it needs people and communities.
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it's now named Stoat https://stoat.chat/updates/long-live-stoat
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Is revolt an online platform or a general instruction?
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's the UK users who didn't find a work around
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I don't use Discord very much. Why do they have ID photos?
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Age verification. Why? Because some politicians have a boner for control.
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The boner is for something else, since they can't stop talking about the "children".
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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.
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They bought into the "age verification" scam.
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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.
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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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hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
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lol didn’t take long
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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.
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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.
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.