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OH LOOK EVERYONE IT’S ONLY THE THING TECH EXPERTS (or anyone with at least reasonable knowledge of technology) WERE FUCKING WARNING ABOUT

Oh wow, the exact thing everyone with 2 brain cells to rub together knew was gonna happen the second people found out it would be required. Seriously, security is on the defensive with a disadvantage most of the time so this was always going to happen no matter what.

Whaaaaat thaaaats soooo crreaaazzzyyyy

of course they did

People said this would happen

Nah, this didn’t happen because they’re out of touch and old. It happened because they’re authoritarians and don’t care.

It's crazy how obvious this was. And how everyone that made it happen pretended like forcing you to dox yourself to a private company was a good idea.

ARE YOU FREAKING SQUiDDING ME!@?$#

I give it a week or so before Discord tells us we don't need to use ID anymore after this, and the people trying to make online ID happen immediately back pedal their stance on it. All it takes is one breach like this for it to become apparent that online ID is not the path forward.

Well that was quick and predictable.

Now who could've predicted this? We never could have seen it coming.

Wow, who would've thought.

"Internet safety" laws in action lmao

Of course.

I’ll enjoy the class action

And this is exactly why I opted out of arbitration

It’s the perfect nexus of everything wrong with all these age verification schemes

This after they "assured" everyone their age verif info would be safe. Honestly, the govt pushing that shit needs to be held accountable for forcing these platforms to even collect this information.

Online Safety Act My Ass.

Toss the legislators pushing age verification laws in first.

WHO COULD GUESS Everyone, literally everyone

Fuck sake

Remember when we said this would happen?

I really feel like this warrants a class action lawsuit considering they lied on the record about holding onto personal data like this when they introduced the age verification

Oh nooo, who could've seen this coming....🙄

anyone @aclu.org know how to file a class action lawsuit. asking for a friend, of course. this company enabled bigots try to harm me and also made me think i was literally insane. idk if this is actually illegal. probably not. but fucking hell. i certainly have some damages to seek. #discord

#vent #discord i am furious. my life was turned upside down, i had to take time off work, i had to change all my online identities. some mfers tried to get into my health accounts and lock me out. i literally spent a full day in the ER bc it triggered my ptsd so bad. why did i trust a tech company.

And we have to learn that lesson over and over and over. You cannot safely store this info online.

I can only hope that this causes enough of a stir that it's a wakeup call to governments for corporations. The people already knew this was stupid. Now the people that make the decisions need to make the RIGHT decisions and do away with this joke of a requirement.

compulsory age verification is an invasion of privacy at the best of times, but if you have no choice then at the very least you should treat people's real names and faces with some basic shred of rigour

looks like it’s specifically pictures from people who appealed the verification, so presumably they were saved because they needed manual review I guess? and… hopefully they delete them after but I don’t know if it’s smart to be that generous

Phew i really dodged a bullet spoofing mine

Discord wants to lose more users

What a completely foreseen turn of events

Quick heads up, they changed the name to Stoat. This is what the logo looks like now.

Be sure to change your passwords

never give ur photos / id to these corporations omfg

No, they just want to protect the innocent little kids from being radicalized by porn, furries, anime, Wikipedia, and pro-Palestine content, by forcing you violate your privacy to access it. What's wrong with that? ಠ⁠﹏⁠ಠ /s if it wasn't already obvious.

When is enough, enough for people on big tech. Every time a new idea comes out we all know is bad. We still let them bully us into using it. We all knew it had security issues. Do people want to be vulnerable forever? 😭

They're already connected to really untrustworthy organizations like the Israeli government (Twitter's Au10tix), or Epic Games (Bluesky's Kids Web Services).

Why has discord always sucked at this.

Righttt, I knew about that via the YouTube nonsense. Surprised it made its way to Discord on top of that 🤮

Ffffffuxk

And no one was surprised

That took about as much time as I expected. So worth it to be sble to DM though! /s

Like I've always said, tech corporations do not really care about the security nor privacy of their users. Security is often an after thought to them, especially for consumer level services where they know the punishment for a breach will be a wrist slap, if that.

They were already in use there 😔😔😔

Holy crap you've been holding onto those for the past decade?? That's some serious commitment there way to go! And kudos to your past self for having the thought it could come in useful someday!

Most people focus on the whole first amendment violation, never the 4th at least in America

(I had to block the person who was initially arguing with me here because they seemed to want to argue with me over nothing whatsoever, there's plenty of horrible shit going on and I'm not dealing with nitpicking contrarians)

I buy that especially since I'm pretty sure the UK is the reason this happened with the OSA

it has gotten to the point that people who grew up with ipads are WORSE when it comes to handling the internet than freaking boomers and it breaks my mind

and yet, they're gonna keep the ID verification...

then the government gets hacked. this is the end state of all the stupid and unnecessary id schemes

OH LOOK, IT'S THE EXACT THING EVERYONE SAID WAS GONNA HAPPEN!

That didn't take long...

Woah, I wonder who could have predicted this

WEEEELLLLL WELL WELL

Everyone saw this coming. [Everyone disliked that.]

I'll answer that for you. See, for quite a few people, neither of the third party verification methods worked. Like, at all. For all I know, they still don't. So if you wanted to get out of baby jail, there wasn't really much of a choice.

discord are such fucking clowns

Wow... now, they're gonna reap what they just sown.

the USA is fundamentally broken. courts are useless now

This *isn't* a "right" though. Sending them an email saying "I opt out" is their procedure, not the courts'. This is like those dumb Facebook "I don't give you permission to use my photos" memes.

For the record, in the USA at least it's actually legally unenforceable to waive your right to a trial by jury. They can blow as much smoke as they want about it in their TOS/EULA but certain basic rights (such as full access to the legal system) cannot be signed away by contract.

How old is this screencap?

*cough*

thanks!!

We don't know for sure that's what happened here, but the timeline looks pretty bad regardless. Fundamentally they should be getting raked anyway for demanding people send government ID scans via email, then not securing that data, and they should be getting raked over the forced arbitration.

Glad I used my BG3 tav for my facial ID then 😏

Wow governments sure made the internet safer with these bills

This is why these discordant podcasters need to get off that channel.

I think it's unlikely with this government. They got 550,000 signatures on an official government petition to repeal the OSA, and just turned around and responded with "we're committed to the OSA!", then didn't schedule a debate. I've lost any faith in this government to listen to reason on this.

Yesterday we heard from the privacy commissioner and the Canadian Bar Association’s privacy section, as well as from the Criminal Trial Lawyers. You can follow the next witnesses here: sencanada.ca/en/committee...

I'm so shocked...... Said no one

It's not like anyone could have told you this would happen... I mean aside from everyone.

In my defense it was 4am and I'm an idiot. But hey, getting tagged into something completely unrelated to you is probably more annoying, which is what I was really going for, so who can say if I'm a bad poster or not.

Like I agree with you about the moderation issues here, but still.

that didn't take long

I'm skeptical of their claim it is one of their 3rd party companies. I got an email about being affected, and I do not remember ever contacting customer service about anything. Going through my messages and my email i can't find any record. Maybe I did and forgot /deleted email, but feels unlikely.

Yeah, not surprised about this. Discord leaked also all attachments sent through trouble tickets, so anyone who took photos of their passports and driver's licenses to proof they're adults just got that leaked to the public. GG Discord.

this is why I will never give them my fucking ID

it's incredibly ironic that their email about leaking all the data in their support ticket is a no-reply email address that tells you to raise a support ticket if you need help regarding the leak.