Discord Distances Itself from a bad decision forced upon it by corrupt, evil, politicians
Discord Distances Itself From Age Verification Firm After Ties To Palantir’s Peter Thiel Surface
While the roll-out is aimed for March, PC Gamer reports that some Discord users have already been prompted for new age verification, this time using the third-party service Persona. Started in 2018, Persona develops identity detection and anti-fraud technologies. They’ve been having an absolute field day since the OSA, being implemented to verify user ID across Reddit and Roblox. One sticking point, however, is who’s backing the company: Peter Thiel, the cofounder of ICE-approved surveillance firm Palantir.
- Data Handling: While Persona often deletes raw user information quickly, reports indicate that identity “embeddings”—machine-readable representations of faces or IDs—are retained and fed into models linked to surveillance firms, specifically mentioning Palantir.
- Context: This data transfer is part of a broader concern regarding the use of Persona for ID checks on platforms like Discord, which are then connected to Palantir’s surveillance capabilities.
- Backlash: These actions have triggered privacy concerns, particularly given Palantir’s known role in building data-aggregation and surveillance tools for government and law enforcement agencies.
AI Overview
Based on available information, there are no public reports or court findings of Persona being “caught” failing to destroy identification information. However, there is ongoing scrutiny, user concern, and legal action regarding their data retention policies.
Retaining Data for Compliance: Persona operates as a data processor and may retain identification data for audit and compliance purposes. While they may offer automatic deletion settings, businesses using Persona (the “data controllers”) can choose to retain user data for longer periods to detect fraud.
Failed Verification Retention: For failed verification attempts, Persona has been noted to retain identification data for up to 7 days, or in some cases up to three years for biometric data, according to some reports.
Legal Action & Scrutiny: Persona has been the subject of, or linked to, discussions around class action lawsuits related to the alleged misuse of Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
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Data Deletion Rights: Persona indicates that users can request the deletion of their data through the organization that requested the verification, or through Persona’s own privacy resources.
Note that many state laws that wrongly require websites to collect id information do require the information not be retained which is how they managed to get the evil laws passed. They pretended they could assure the collected data not be misused. Every politician who supported this crap should never be voted into office again.
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