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Pasting article here so you don’t have to follow link. OP claims Discord is selling our communications to a variety of buyers and will implement biometric facial recognition. I have not vetted the claim, yet. :

🦔 A service called Spy Pet has been scraping Discord, pulling data from over 10,000 servers. They claim to have data on 600 million users and 3 billion messages. Anyone can look up a specific user’s activity across servers for about 10 cents in crypto. The data is being sold to law enforcement and to companies training AI models. Meanwhile, Discord just announced that starting next month, users will need a face scan or government ID for full access.

My Take

Discord feels private because it’s fragmented. You’re in a Minecraft server here, a crypto server there, maybe a work community somewhere else. But Spy Pet stitches all of that together into one searchable profile. Everything you posted, everywhere you posted it, available to anyone with a dime and a crypto wallet. You didn’t consent to cops reading your gaming chat. You didn’t consent to your conversations training some AI model. But consent stopped being the point a long time ago.

And now Discord wants your face. They say it’s to protect teens. One of their third-party vendors had a data breach last year that exposed users’ ID images. So the platform that already let your data get scraped and sold is asking you to trust them with your biometrics. If it’s not encrypted, assume it’s being harvested. Discord isn’t a private space. It’s a public one that feels private, which is almost worse.

Hedgie🤗