2/9 – Discord To Roll Out Age Verification Next Month, Will Require A Face Scan Or ID For Full Access – Techcrunch, The Verge, Genuine Articles // GG
2/9 — Discord To Roll Out Age Verification Next Month, Will Require A Face Scan Or ID For Full Access
Discord is rolling out age verification globally starting next month, the company announced on Monday. All users will be put into a “teen-appropriate experience” by default. Only users verified as adults will be able to change certain settings and access age-restricted content.
“For most adults, age verification won’t be required, as Discord’s age inference model uses account information such as account tenure, device and activity data, and aggregated, high-level patterns across Discord communities,” the company said in an emailed statement to TechCrunch. “Discord does not use private messages or any message content in this process.”
Some Discord users will need to be confirmed as adults in order to unblur sensitive content or turn off the setting. Only adults will be able to access age-restricted channels, servers, and app commands. Additionally, messages from people a user may not know are routed to a separate inbox by default, and only verified adults can modify this setting.
People will receive warning prompts for friend requests from users they may not know, and only adults will be able speak onstage in servers.
To complete age verification, users need to either complete a facial age estimation or submit an ID to Discord’s vendor partners. The platform plans to add more options in the future. Discord notes that some users may be asked to use multiple methods when additional information is needed to assign an age group.
The facial age estimation requires video selfies, which Discord says never leave your device. Additionally, the company says IDs submitted to its vendor partners are deleted quickly and, in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.
It’s worth noting that Discord disclosed last October that around 70,000 users may have had sensitive data, such as their government ID photos, exposed after hackers breached a third-party vendor that the platform uses for age-related appeals. The breach reflected digital rights activists’ concerns over the use of age checks as a way to make the internet “safer.”
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