NEW: breach of Discord age verification data.

For some users this means their passports & drivers licenses.

Discord has only run age verification for 6 months.

Age verification is a badly implemented data grab wrapped in a moral panic.

Proponents say age verification = showing your ID at the door to a bar.

But the analogy is often wrong.

It's more like: bouncer photocopies some IDs, & keeps them in a shed around back.

There will be more breaches.

But it should bother you that the technology promised to make us all safer, is quickly making us less so.

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