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Oh sick! So if this goes through, precedent is set that anyone who can come up with a reason greater than “my video game leaked”, can legally ~~broker~~ ~~collect~~ ~~harvest~~ request data from select discord servers that can directly tie the real identity of an individual to their windows device id.
I can’t see that being abused at all.
Maybe Discord will build them some premium level corpo only API endpoints so this can be automated ✨ /s
Discord is trash, but they have no legal reason to comply with this request unless they just want to.
Yeah this feels like a turning point. Right now for most people it's a vague threat of privacy most people are somewhat aware of like "meh it's probably fine". If this goes through, it changes to a very real risk of being systematically doxxed at any time by whoever asks.