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Persona, Discords "Age Verification" Service, creates a profile of you, sends it to the US Feds and deems you suspicious based on your appearance, exposed by Hackers (www.therage.co)
submitted 8 months ago by not_IO@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/privacy@lemmy.world
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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Will they even bother trying to rebrand this or just pretend it doesn’t exist?

[–] techt@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Discord stated that it will not be proceeding with Persona for identity verification.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And will not be implementing age restrictions, for now. Key point is t the end.

[–] Ghostie@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I think they are still going to do it, just not with Persona. This article was embedded in the one posted and is linked in the part that says “Discord stated it will not be going forward with Persona”. Looks like they experimented with Persona as a trial. But there is nowhere that says Discord opted not to do age verification with K-ID or maybe some other service.

[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 8 months ago

Aye, I pointed out for now they're not doing it. They'll do it again eventually.