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Discord says piracy subpoena would violate users’ First Amendment rights (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by Gemini24601 to c/technology

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Discord defends itself against efforts to stop piracy on its platform by saying no to more invasive data collection. Even though Discord isn’t exactly known for privacy, this is a great move for its users. What are your thoughts?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Discord still sells your information for advertising so it's meaningless posturing.

[–] donuts 22 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I'm gonna get flak for this but no, Discord does not sell any user data, no matter how many times people keep repeating it. Quoting a legendary redditor here:

Discord's privacy policy repeatedly states that they do not sell your personal information:

We don’t sell your personal information. Our business is based on subscriptions and paid products, not from selling your personal information to third parties.

We make money from paid subscriptions and the sale of digital (and sometimes physical) goods, not from selling your personal information to third parties.

We do not sell the personal data of our users or share personal data for targeted advertising purposes.

‍No sale or “share” of personal information: The CCPA sets forth certain obligations for businesses that sell or “share” personal information. We do not sell or share the personal information of our users as defined in the CCPA.

This is a legal document that they will get in trouble for if they were lying. They've already been fined hundreds of thousands of euros for GDPR violations but that curiously did not include a fine for "took people's personal information and then sold them without consent whilst explicitly saying they didn't do that"

Discord further has no third party advertisements which they can use to "sell" your data by allowing those advertisements to target you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Real question. When they say "we don't sell your data", that also means they are saying "we don't trade your information with other companies for other things that aren't money", or it doesn't?

[–] Tattorack 2 points 2 months ago

Makes sense. I've been getting "quests" and adverts about games I don't even own. If Discord was selling data for targeted advertising, the adverts would've been far more... Targeted.

Still annoying as hell, though, but at least it's limited to my mobile app. I use Vesktop on my computer.

[–] qarbone 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not meaningless but certainly undercuts the grandstanding.

[–] Jiggle_Physics 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes, the authorities will have to pay for data like everyone else.

[–] qarbone 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

And that's job creation right there!

Thanks to Discord, I'm able to keep merchants that "connect overbearing authoritarian entities with the data they shouldn't have, at a price point we all can agree on" at stable, sub-full time employment status.

Truly, pillar of the economy, er community.