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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by Aurornis on Monday February 09, 2026 @01:46PM (#46949150)
They explained it in their announcement at https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incide...

TL;DR: The IDs were used in age-related appeals. If someone's account was banned for being too young they have to submit an ID as part of the appeal. Appeals take time to process and review.

Discord has 200,000,000 users and age verification happens a lot due to the number of young users and different countries.

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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by plorg on Monday February 09, 2026 @02:39PM (#46949980)
Why should we suspect the age verification and age-related appeals would involve different teams or processes?
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by elpasi on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:44PM (#46950977)
Age verification is done by an iframe to k-id.com.

Appeals are done in the actual Discord ticketing system.

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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by Aurornis on Monday February 09, 2026 @04:38PM (#46951821)
Appeals are like escalations. They bypass automations and move to manual review.
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by reactordev on Monday February 09, 2026 @03:17PM (#46950566)
This is corporate cover speak for “we keep all data”
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by theshrike79 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:58AM (#46956646)
Yeaaah, nope.

GDPR is no joke and storing people’s actual ID card photos is a gigantic liability. Companies treat that stuff like it’s toxic waste, they want to get rid of it as fast as possible and permanently.

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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by trinix912 on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:18AM (#46957189)
How come they didn’t do that the first time? There’s really no guarantee this time will be different or that the 3rd party is any better.
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by reactordev on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:13AM (#46957140)
We’re talking about Discord. The same people who put everyone’s “server” as a chat room on WebRTC.

They don’t share your same sense of toxicity.

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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by jonathanstrange on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:25AM (#46957253)
Maybe that's generally true but you're saying that about a company that has leaked 70,000 IDs that were supposed to not exist just last October.
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by chickensong on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:50AM (#46957447)
And yet...
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by pbhjpbhj on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @05:47AM (#46957932)
So Discord only just survived financially because of heavy fines imposed from their earlier breach of trust? All their C-suite were fined commensurate with their remunerations+wealth?
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Re:Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access ne... by superkuh on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @09:39AM (#46960262)
Uh... EVERYONE with a Discord account has to go through age-related appeals now. That's what the announcement is.
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