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Discord delays age verification plans after user outcry
Discord will delay global age verification until H2 2026, cut ties with Persona after data breach concerns, and offer multiple verification methods for less than 10% of users.
- In a Tuesday blog post, Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord cofounder and CTO, announced delaying the global age-verification rollout to the second half of 2026 and apologized for missteps.
- Earlier this month Discord announced teen-default settings and age verification, prompting backlash fueled by a third-party vendor breach last fall that exposed government ID photos of 70,000 Discord users.
- Discord will publish a technical blog and transparency reports explaining its automatic age determination and listing verification vendors, while adding credit-card verification, on-device facial estimation, and a spoiler channel; around 90% of users won’t need to verify.
- Users who choose not to verify will keep accounts and friends but be blocked from age-restricted content until verifying, while Discord will meet legal obligations in the UK, Australia and Brazil and cancel the March rollout.
- Amid fragile trust, Discord cut ties with the vendor involved in the breach and said Persona, an age verification provider, did not meet its on-device facial-estimation standard, risking user migration to alternatives despite its more than 200 million active users.
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