# Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing

DevFeed: [Getting Global Age Assurance Right: What We Got Wrong and What's Changing](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-what-s-changing-242.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://discord.com/blog/getting-global-age-assurance-right-what-we-got-wrong-and-whats-changing>)

Author: Stanislav Vishnevskiy

Published: 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Discord Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/discord-blog.md>)

Topics: [Discord](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/discord.md>), [online privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/online-privacy.md>), [Security](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/security.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [Reddit](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/reddit.md>), [Roblox](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/roblox.md>)

Tags: [data](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/data.md>), [discord](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/discord.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [launch](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/launch.md>), [policy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/policy.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [security](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/security.md>)

## AI overview

Discord outlines changes to its global age-assurance plans, including greater transparency about verification vendors, multiple verification options, strict data-retention limits, and a delayed global launch until the second half of 2026. The article also explains that a limited UK test with Persona ended without further partnership and that facial age estimation must be performed entirely on-device.

## Source excerpt

Discord's CTO addresses community concerns about age assurance: no mass ID collection, new vendor transparency commitments, and a delayed global launch until second half of 2026.