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@Em0nM4stodon Its a small win. I've been trying to get my friends to move over to Matrix, but its been an uphill battle. I also really hated the "hello fellow privacy enthusiasts" tone of the CTO's blog post.
Not sure if its been brought up, but using the wayback machine it looks like Discord only listed 2 new roles, a privacy engineer and privacy counsel in the past 2 weeks.
@JJGadget Sure. Here you go. It's not exactly well written:
@everyone I know I haven't been quiet about Discord fucking you all, but this age verification thing is really bad. Its all handled by a company called Persona, and feeds an enormous amount of data points directly to the US government. It includes financial information, your political ideas, your emotions, obviously your face and biometric data, assumes your immigration status, your physical location, and if you're a "politically sensitive person". They retain the ability to close financial accounts and get you arrested. This includes if they believe you're associated with any persons of interest. This is a crazy level of spying I am personally not comfortable with, and I will likely greatly reduce my interactions on Discord as a result. I highly recommend that none of you provide any information to Discord and if possible, leave if you feel like you can.
Here are some links to back up what I've been saying:
https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/age-verification-vendor-persona-left-frontend-exposed
https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-surveillance-capabilities/
https://youtu.be/nCi9Uq5GZ18?si=A64pU2Y3RB1mKrBc
If you have Discord installed on your computer you should remove it as it has the ability to tell at least some of the programs you have running. This really is Discord moving into spyware/malware territory and you shouldn't take this lightly. I'm not doing this to fear monger, or raise unnecessary concern. This is seriously fucked up and a violation of the social contract we all have with this platform.
I posted a lengthy message to my friends and every server I'm active on on #discord about how obscenely evil their new #ageverification policy is and shared links about the most recent persona breach.
Everyone seems extremely disturbed by the obvious privacy violation this is and everyone is planning to leave. Some of my coworkers are spinning up a teamspeak server and the majority of my friends have been moving to #Matrix.
Be the squeaky wheel!
