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The Discord message (in Australia at least) specifically says:

The information you provide is only used to confirm your age group, then it's deleted

Refer screenshot: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/1nkrxcp/discord...

I can still swipe the message away, so I haven't done it yet. I'm going to work out how I can fake the face scan. I ain't sending Government ID to some chat app (no matter how big or small) that's over the top.

As an aside, I would have thought the age groups should be: 13 to 18, and 18+. They're the only ones that materially matter to the reason this check exists, in Australia at least. I don't want to contribute to their demographic analysis.

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When the australia sub reddit was discussing the introduction of id on discord, the top comment was something along the lines of "look up openfeint". That was the day I uninstalled discord. It may not be an easy decision, especially if you are part of important social communities, but we cannot accept this level of disregard for our identities.

I just looked up "Openfeint".

It took me a while to find the connection to Discord. Not sure if I did because it seems like some mobile app for people who play mobile games with some connection to some Japanese network and hosted in China or something?

OpenFeint was founded by the same guy who founded Discord.

From the Wikipedia page: "In 2011, OpenFeint was party to a class action suit with allegations including computer fraud, invasion of privacy, breach of contract, bad faith and seven other statutory violations. According to a news report "OpenFeint's business plan included accessing and disclosing personal information without authorization to mobile-device application developers, advertising networks and web-analytic vendors that market mobile applications"."

I was entertaining an offer from Discord and also stumbled upon the founder’s former company debacle. The platform vision pitched to me in the interview seemed similar and seeing as how he started to implement spyware I decided to bail.

Oh wow ok.

Now I understand :D

Unless they get fined for this, nothing will change.

That is not the system that was compromised.

It was Discord's helpdesk software (reported to be Zendesk).

If you have problems with that system, you can log a support ticket with the Discord helpdesk, attaching your ID, and they can override it for you.

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