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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458148

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/33458015

If I am required to do this, I am purging my Discord account immediately. I am not giving them face scans.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Just in case anyone reading this gets the impression that direct messages sent on Discord are private from Discord itself, they aren't. If you were to send your face to a mod, or send anything to anyone there, then Discord would have it, too.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

To be fair to Discord, it has to work that way. They serve the files to you anywhere in the world on any device you use, don't they? That requires hosting the content.

But it could very well be used for other purposes, too, of course.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No, it doesn't have to work that way, as we can see by the existence of messaging platforms with end-to-end encryption.

I suspect the person to whom I replied understands this, but their comment could have been misinterpreted as implying that Discord messages are private, so I wanted to clarify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Regardless, they need to have it in their terms of service that they can host the file, encrypted or otherwise, on their servers and reserve the right to serve the files to other users.

But yes, that's true that they can't necessarily access the files they're hosting/serving.