Discord today is rolling out an age-verification system that estimates each user\u2019s age and requires some users to prove they are old enough to access age-restricted content. Discord said it will take a few days for the global system to reach all user accounts.<\/p>\n
Discord had announced a somewhat different plan for age checks in February, but scrapped<\/a> it amid backlash<\/a> from users concerned about privacy. The privacy concerns were heightened by a 2025 incident in which hackers stole<\/a> government IDs of 70,000 Discord users from a third-party service that Discord used to verify ages in the UK and Australia.<\/p>\n The original plan<\/a> was to require ID uploads or face scans from users seeking to access age-restricted servers and channels. The revised system, detailed yesterday<\/a> by Discord CTO and co-founder Stanislav Vishnevskiy, will provide several additional options.<\/p>\n \u201cIn February, the only methods we\u2019d planned for to confirm your age were facial age estimation or an ID scan. Based on your feedback, we committed to giving you more options that meet our high privacy standards,\u201d Vishnevskiy wrote.<\/p>\n A Discord system will automatically estimate user ages and place each user into an adult age group (18+), a teen group (13-17), or an \u201cunconfirmed\u201d group for which there isn\u2019t enough data to determine whether a person is an adult or teen.<\/p>\n For the teen group, message requests from non-friends will go to a separate inbox for review, and users will receive alerts about friend requests from people they don\u2019t share mutual friends or a small server with. \u201cSensitive\u201d images will be blurred or blocked, \u201cand age-restricted servers, channels, and bot commands aren\u2019t accessible,\u201d Discord said. Teen users\u2019 full profile details will be visible only to friends and people in smaller servers that they\u2019re part of.<\/p>\n Age verification options<\/p>\n Discord estimates that more than 90 percent of users will not be asked to confirm their age. Adults who want to access age-restricted content, but are incorrectly placed in the 13-17 age group or put into \u201cunconfirmed,\u201d will have several options to prove they are old enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Discord today is rolling out an age-verification system that estimates each user\u2019s age and requires some users to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":907174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,48,61],"class_list":["post-907173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/907174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}