Discord steps up privacy for users with end-to-end encryption [Video]

Discord has faced its share of controversies. Just this year, it came to light that 600 million Discord users had their data leaked after someone scraped group chats across thousands of servers. And earlier this month, Discord released a new feature that felt like spying.

Fortunately, there’s a tiny bit of good news to balance that out: the gaming-focused communication platform is now rolling out end-to-end encryption for audio and video calls.

In the announcement post, the company refers to it as the DAVE protocol — short for Discord’s Audio and Video End-to-End Encryption — and it will be implemented across all audio and video calls in direct messages, group chats, voice channels, and Go Live streams.

What this means is that call data is encrypted on your end before it’s sent to receivers, and then decrypted by receivers. Only the participants in a call know the per-sender keys needed for decryption — not even Discord knows, which means the content of your audio and video …