Discord is slowing down its new age verification update after it received numerous user complaints. Earlier this month, it ...

New online safety codes requiring R-rated games and websites to verify their users' ages come into effect, prompting concerns about online privacy.

Biometrics use at borders, in age assurance and law enforcement run quickly into concerns around data privacy and ...

User photos were being compared to government watchlist photos, according to an independent researcher.

Gay and bisexual people in Australia are being targeted in violent attacks facilitated through dating and social media apps. A recent investigation by the ABC revealed several hate crimes involving ...

The high‑profile case arose against a backdrop of increasing scrutiny of alleged misuse of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (“SLAPPs”) to deter legitimate investigative reporting. The ...

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The ICO published an open letter today, aimed intinally at social media and video sharing platforms being the main focus but it will form the central aspect of the ICO's Children's Code which applies ...

Hackers have revealed that parts of Discord's new age verification system were effectively exposed to the public after the frontend code for third-party vendor Persona was left accessible on the open ...

"We leverage an advanced machine learning model developed at Discord to predict whether a user falls into a particular age group based on patterns of user behavior and several other signals associated ...

Angry about Discord age verification? Find out how Discord botched the rollout, lost user trust, and changed direction.

Developer Embark Studios has acknowledged that Arc Raiders' Discord SDK logged more user data than intended and issued a ...