The social platform is testing age checks using facial scanning for access to sensitive content.
  • kitnaht@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    It says information used for age checks will not be stored by Discord or the verification company.

    Bullshit. Every time some bitch-ass company says this, 4-5 years later they’re like “we were hacked, someone took everyone’s photo IDs!”

    • Ulrich@feddit.orgEnglish
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      11 days ago

      “And we were hacked because we don’t care about security because there’s zero accountability, see you at the next hack!”

  • keyboardpithecus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    I find absurd that many political groups including the Pirate Party moved to Discord. People who that claim to be fighting for the rights of user privacy then invite you to join Discord. Looks like they have been assimilated by big tech.

  • rivan@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 days ago

    Sounds like a creepy way for discord to take millions of photos of children and feed them to an AI.

    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 days ago

      my time with discord was short. but the amount of pedophiles or people who supported pedophiles was so high I never went back.

      my point is, this is on-brand for them.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 days ago

    See I still remember when I didn’t have to scan my face to get a machine to do something. And that’s the way it will always be. For me.

  • deur@feddit.nlEnglish
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    11 days ago

    A seatbelt does not stop you from breaking a law. Age verification does. The assumption is that you are lying and trying to break the law and you need to prove why you aren’t. This has nothing to do with discord. Be mad at shit garbage UK and Australian regulators.

      • PassingThrough@lemm.eeEnglish
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        11 days ago

        Same thing that’s wrong with Teamspeak and the other old standby, IRC:

        A dated look and lack of shinies like inline GIFs scares the youngsters, the lack of history/persistence drops them and everyone else.

        Ah, the many logging bots of IRC. Going to a website or getting daily sized text files DCC’d to you so you could search up if your problem had already been solved, or so someone said they think it was solved on one of those days…

  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    11 days ago

    Use Mastodon. You can use a server outside of your country. And even if your country attempts to find the operator, 10% of their global turnover of zero is still zero.