Discord's age verification sparks intense backlash. Could it save lives?

Discord will soon enact age verification for all users, a move aimed at teen safety — but one that sparked intense backlash ...

You can now bypass Discord's age verification checks with a gamepad-controlled 3D model from GitHub

That's one way to get around it.
Rock Paper Shotgun

Discord promise they won't force everybody to do a face scan following outrage at new age verification policy

Social media company Discord are trying their best to reassure people irked by the recently announced global rollout of some ...

Social media age verification is full of risks and unclear rewards

Efforts to protect children’s mental health online raise unresolved data privacy concerns ...
GameSpot

Discord To Roll Out Age Verification Policies Worldwide, Months After Hack Exposed Users' IDs

On Discord's end, the company promises that its "age assurance" approaches will protect user privacy, saying that video ...

Discord's upcoming safety update makes age verification hard to avoid

Discord plans to set every user's account to teen-by-default — unless you're willing to undergo an invasive age verification ...
Mid-Day

What Is Electronic Identity Verification?

Turning your face toward a smartphone camera or snapping a photo of an ID has become a familiar part of digital life. Electronic identity verification (eIDV) is steadily gaining traction, but despite ...

Discord introducing mandatory age-verification for sensitive content and other services in global teen-by-default update

Discord has announced a new "teen-by-default" approach to its platform, meaning age-verification will be a mandatory for ...