Discord has announced that it's rolling out age verification checks globally from March – and the decision has sparked fury from many privacy-conscious users.
Anytime they scan your id the information is stored. They know you went into that store and bought alcohol. If you think they aren’t storing that information, I’ve an exciting investment opportunity for you.
It doesn’t matter if the schlepps at the store don’t see the information stored and don’t retain a record, obviously they wouldn’t.
I hear that. My local ABC store doesn’t scan my ID, though I don’t see a future where they don’t eventually scan every time; and my local grocery store scans occasionally, but not always.
I can’t just not buy age-verified products, though, because sometimes it’s cold medicine or a prescription. **
Back to the original thread, this is not a Discord problem, this is a privacy problem. We need to push back on data capture in general and tell legislators that privacy is important to all people, even those who buy booze.
** could we make little sneaky stickers that obfuscate the barcode enough to prevent it scanning? The cashier would likely revert to visual inspection without the data retention: face matches photo, age is good, override.
Anytime they scan your id the information is stored. They know you went into that store and bought alcohol. If you think they aren’t storing that information, I’ve an exciting investment opportunity for you.
It doesn’t matter if the schlepps at the store don’t see the information stored and don’t retain a record, obviously they wouldn’t.
I hear that. My local ABC store doesn’t scan my ID, though I don’t see a future where they don’t eventually scan every time; and my local grocery store scans occasionally, but not always.
I can’t just not buy age-verified products, though, because sometimes it’s cold medicine or a prescription. **
Back to the original thread, this is not a Discord problem, this is a privacy problem. We need to push back on data capture in general and tell legislators that privacy is important to all people, even those who buy booze.
** could we make little sneaky stickers that obfuscate the barcode enough to prevent it scanning? The cashier would likely revert to visual inspection without the data retention: face matches photo, age is good, override.
Wait, there are still ABC stores?