If you were in a public Discord any time over the past decade, you weren’t just chatting with your friends—you were ...

The approach Discord is taking represents a growing trend among tech companies to balance verification requirements with privacy concerns, processing sensitive data locally rather than on remote ...

a service that allowed users to create custom links for their Discord channels, is closing down following a large data breach. A hacker stole the data of 760,000 users, per TechRadar, and has ...

This system invites privacy concerns, though Discord said in an FAQ section about the new requirement that the data users provide for verification is not stored by Discord or its face-scan vendor.

Discord requires its users to be at least 13 years old. But there isn’t any age verification to sign up in the United States - anyone can say they are any age.