Well, their privacy policy allows them to sell all of those messages. Encrypting them in a non-reversible fashion (or at least non-reversible to Discord themse

Well, their privacy policy allows them to sell all of those messages. Encrypting them in a non-reversible fashion (or at least non-reversible to Discord themselves) would impact this or any kind of research they want to do on the years of gamers' conversations. I like Discord a lot, and to be fair, their people have publicly claimed here and elsewhere that they have no intention to sell the information. Unfortunately, those statements have no teeth. While they state the same in their privacy policy (in non-binding form about intent), the same privacy policy goes on to specifically allow sale and transfer of user data. See "OUR DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION" here: https://discordapp.com/privacy https://discordapp.com/privacy The difference is that the privacy policy is a legal acknowledgement end users must accept before they use the software. The forum/blog statements and non-binding language we read everywhere else are just 'feel good' things for users to hear and for their employees to tell themselves. If they just wanted protection against an accidental slippage of data then that privacy page could be changed substantially. Instead, they pave the road for the explicit sale of data at a later time. Ideally they would deny it in current policy if they have no intent of selling the information. They could leave the option open to change in the future with a "this privacy policy is subject to change" clause, but clauses like this only have teeth if there is also a clause that ensures future policy changes won't apply retroactively to historically collected data without opt-in after the policy change. But this weakens their position in an eventual acquisition by some company who finds monetary value in that data. As it stands right now, in an eventual acquisition or even just some internal shifts of philosophy in the organization, all historical data is up for grabs for any potential use.