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It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 ye
by mdavidn 8mo ago
It boggles my mind that they need a photo ID to prove that my 9-year-old account with a saved credit card belongs to an adult. The linked Steam account is 18 years old.
- doctorpangloss 8mo agoYeah because they don’t haha. It boggles the mind because the headline is clickbait.
- moffkalast 8mo agoYoutube routinely asks for ID on accounts that are already of drinking age, they dgaf they want document scans they can use for profiling and to likely sell to 3rd parties.
- Permit 8mo ago> and to likely sell to 3rd parties. Can you provide literally any evidence that would suggest this is the case?
- DaSHacka 8mo agoGive it a couple years for the inevitable data breach to leak all the details
- ted_bunny 8mo agoThis sort of thing is common enough that simply establishing means, motive and opportunity are convincing to me. If not yet then soon. You can't hope for a smoking gun every time.
- randunel 8mo agoSince selling PII is a common practice in the US industry, I believe the onus is reversed, they need to prove that they delete/keep-private.
- moffkalast 8mo agoYep, that's my reasoning too.
- matt_kantor 8mo agoGiven how YouTube makes money from advertising, I suspect it's more profitable for them to keep the data to themselves and use it for targeting. I would not be surprised if they also share it with Adsense & other Alphabet entities (and presumably with government agencies), but am doubtful beyond that. Not that this is much better than directly selling to third parties.
- MaxikCZ 8mo agothey don't do this for age verification, they do this to build dataset to sell.
- sebstefan 8mo ago> Key privacy protections of Discord’s age-assurance approach include: > On-device processing: Video selfies for facial age estimation never leave a user’s device. > Quick deletion: Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners are deleted quickly— in most cases, immediately after age confirmation. > Straightforward verification: In most cases, users complete the process once and their Discord experience adapts to their verified age group. Users may be asked to use multiple methods only when more information is needed to assign an age group. > Private status: A user’s age verification status cannot be seen by other users.
- istoleabread 8mo agoYes, I definitely trust the multi-billion dollar corporation regarding my data
- sebstefan 8mo agoDiscord is an app that's so routinely reverse-engineered there are projects with a million+ users designed around patching changes to it, straight in the binary. https://betterdiscord.app/ https://betterdiscord.app/ Do you think their big evil plan is to make up a lie that will last maybe 3 weeks, jeopardize the user trust and lose nitro revenue Surely there is so much money to be made selling random people's faces. If they tell you they're not selling your data they're not selling your data. What you should worry about is incompetence Not even 6 months ago a third party they used for ID verification got breached https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8jmzd972leo
- direwolf20 8mo agoDo you think they reverse engineer the server side?
- Lambdanaut 8mo agofrom the article: `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. Discord does not use private messages or any message content in this process`