Hiyato2d ago
Electronic Frontier Foundation
“Discord is in the business of making money by selling their users’ personal data,” EFF's Samantha Baldwin told @arstechnica. “They are implementing ‘age verification’ to meet regulatory compliance and to collect more data about their customers, not protect children.” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/04/dad-stuck-in-support-nightmare-after-teen-lied-about-age-on-discord/
Dad stuck in support nightmare after teen lied about age on Discord

Data dump confirms dad's suspicions that Discord knew teen's age prior to hack.

Ars Technica
Apr 11 at 4:47pmTypefully
Show threadRhetoricalodon2d ago
@eff @arstechnica
Great piece. But please explore the more critical angle: age verification requiring docs that many people don't have creates a digital divide, excluding stateless folks, refugees, and marginalized groups from legit access to the internet and in some jurisdictions: the operating system.
Show threadjonathankoren™1d ago

@rhetoricalodon @eff @arstechnica yes, the danger of targeting minors is real. No, using Discord’s age verification is not the answer. And in all honesty, teen/child accounts are so often limited to be pretty much useless.

The family should have just tell discord to delete the account and create a new one.

Show threadtecHunt1d ago
@eff @arstechnica this just goes back to the old saying: "If a service is free, you are the product."
Show threadretrimental1d ago

@eff @arstechnica
I read the article, and what I took from it is the dad is either an idiot or naive.
He knows about the Discord breach, and claims he isn't a rookie with technology, yet he still goes ahead and lets his daughter submit identification.
And this is after going through support hell with Discord.
I just can't wrap my head around a parent willingly providing an opportunity for his daughter's info to be caught in another breach.

Am I the asshole?