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Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification policy after receiving swift backlash from users with concerns about their privacy. The ...

Discord’s move to require age verification through facial recognition and ID scans arrives wrapped in the language of protection. But it’s actually a blueprint for something more troubling: ...

Earlier this month, Discord said it would be enacting an age verification policy. The platform faced some initial concerns from users about turning over their IDs and personal information, ...

Given how often I've had to pick up shop and move to another social media site, you'd think I'd be used to online spaces sunsetting or changing so completely that they're unrecognizable. But here I am ...

In a new statement, Discord CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy clarifies that 90% of global users will be able to continue to use Discord as they always have. The Discord users who will need to authenticate ...

Discord announced Tuesday that it will delay the implementation of previously announced, but controversially received, age verification measures. In a Tuesday blog post, Discord CTO and co-founder ...

Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor transparency, and other changes. Now it will hold off on expansion until it adds more verification options, vendor ...

Discord no longer plans to roll out age verification globally in March and is delaying the launch until the second half of 2026, the company announced Tuesday. Discord had faced heavy backlash from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Persona, partially funded by Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund, continues to provide age verification services for OpenAI, ...

The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end. The messaging platform says its ‘limited test’ of Persona in the UK has come to an end. is a news writer who ...

Social community platform Discord is preparing to require users to verify their age by the second half of 2026, and users are concerned about the privacy of uploading a government ID or face scan to ...