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this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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It's not just they are doing age verification, but the method they are using to implement it. ID collection is not privacy respecting, and further to that, they've already had a major data leak, including said IDs. For the facial scan method, they claim that it will be on-device only but given that it's closed source software, they could change this at any time.
Seemingly, everyone are missing that Discord are very likely to go public soon https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-06/chat-platform-discord-is-said-to-file-confidentially-for-ipo.
My guess is they will announce going public themselves as soon as they have normalized their ID collection and age verification AI programme. Big papa Microsoft or the like will buy Discord and make it an evergreen AI data set training ground.
We need to retrain our business operators to respect privacy, perhaps some reinforcement training with blunt objects.