0 Concern2 Mixed2 Positive
C+58 / 100
In Plain English
Discord collects your messages, activity, device data, and behavioural signals, and uses them for personalisation and sponsored content targeting — but it doesn't sell your data, encrypts voice and video end-to-end, and gives you genuine in-app controls over most processing. The biggest risks are public server content being used to train AI systems and third-party bots operating largely outside Discord's privacy guarantees.
Category Breakdown
Known data breaches
No known public data breaches
Discord does not appear in the Have I Been Pwned database of publicly disclosed data breaches.
How Discord could earn a higher grade
Recommended changes
- Publish specific retention timelines for message content, voice metadata, and activity logs — the current policy uses 'as long as necessary' language throughout.
- Provide clearer disclosure of what data Tencent (as a significant shareholder) can access and under what conditions.
- Offer users a way to audit which third-party bots in their servers have accessed their messages, and under what permissions.
- Extend in-app privacy controls to cover background app monitoring — currently the 'Now Playing' data collection happens regardless of privacy settings.
- Publish a transparency report covering government data requests and law enforcement cooperation, broken down by country.
Frequently asked questions
Alternatives to Discord
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Signal
87/100
Signal is a nonprofit that genuinely cannot read your messages or listen to your calls — the encryption is architectural…