I've heard reports of Discord using Persona for Age Verification in the UK.
For those that don't know, Persona is a Peter Thiel funded venture. Persona is facing several class action lawsuits in Illinois for allegedly using biometric data to train GenAI models. Persona, of course, denies this.
With that, I have a couple questions:
To UK Users: Has Discord always used Persona for AV? Or did they switch very recently?
To users in other regions that mandate AV: Is Discord using k-ID? Or are they using Persona (or other AV Vendor)?
Regardless, it's scummy for Discord to advertise k-ID as their AV Vendor yet use Persona without disclosure (at bare minimum). I get that Discord is kinda forced to implement AV or face the wrath of various governments, but still.
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RE: https://ieji.de/@GalacticGoddess/116060604863118127
UPDATE: The use of Persona appears to be a UK specific experiment. This is presumably due to the UK government being a bit more up websites' asses about bypasses.
That being said: I could see Discord switching in other regions if other Govs get similarly up websites' asses about bypasses.
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