it wasn't discord that had a data breach that leaked IDs, it was the company they were using for ID age verification.

if they can truly do face scan verification that runs solely on your device, that should be fine. and it's totally possible, by the way. you don't need a crazy AI cluster to do this. whether or not you trust that is what is going on is a different story entirely.

then they still have an algorithm to determine if someone is 18+ or not. there is a bunch of data that could go into this, from the games you play to the vocab you use, to the age of your account.

if you don't trust discord to not expose this data, then don't use discord lmao.

i don't like age verification as much as the next guy, but with the internet being so prevalent i fear it might actually be necessary to help protect children from predators. it's not going to eliminate every case of it, but i do think it will help.

the unfortunate thing is that anything that is done "for the children" immediately sets off people's alarms because of how many things have been passed off as being "for the children" without that actually being the case.