Discord, one of the world’s largest voice communication platforms, took a decision that confused users. Discord, which has kept user privacy at the forefront and has not followed users in any way, has come to the focus of discussions with a statement it made recently. In the statement, it was stated that the platform will switch to a new usage policy as of March 27.
In fact, there was no major problem with Discord’s new policies in general. However, there was a remarkable detail that according to which “any content uploaded to the service” by users would be stored and collected by Discord. This is exactly what sparked the debate.
What exactly was “any content uploaded to the service”?
It can be thought that the phrase “any content uploaded to the service” in Discord’s new policies, which will be effective as of March 27, will include audio recordings, messaging, emojis and all shared files when first read. You are right to think so, because Discord does not say anything clear on the subject. However, according to a Discord spokesperson, the incident was completely misunderstood.
“To be clear, Discord does not store or save user content without their knowledge,” the spokesperson told PCGamer. used the phrases. Trying to explain the change, the spokesperson stated that there may be confusion between the new features in the future and the language of the current policy, and they started to use such a phrase to prevent this confusion.
However, the speaker’s statements are not clear enough.
Since Discord did not make any statement about the new features, the statement made by the spokesperson was not fully understood. After all, for what new features, anything uploaded to Discord could be recorded and stored.
There is a possibility here: Discord’s “Go Live” feature, which is used to broadcast live, may have a similar ability to “Clip” in Twitch in the future. In case of such a thing, Discord may need to record live broadcasts and process them. Still, Discord needs to be more clear that users won’t be monitoring all of their data.
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