Overview
- Discord says over 90% of users will be classified by internal account‑signal models, with no reading of messages or posts.
- Users who do need checks will get more options, including credit‑card verification, with vendors returning only an age group.
- Discord ended its Persona evaluation after a limited UK test and now requires any facial age estimation to run entirely on-device.
- The company will publish a list of verification vendors with their data practices and release a technical explainer of its age inference system.
- Jurisdictional checks continue where required by law, and users who decline verification keep their accounts but lose access to age‑restricted spaces, against a backdrop of distrust after a 2025 vendor breach that exposed about 70,000 ID photos.