Discord Partners with Peter Thiel-Backed Persona for UK Age Verification Experiment
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Summary
Discord has confirmed it's working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by Peter Thiel, as part of a global age verification system rollout. The collaboration is described as an 'experiment' specifically involving UK users, where Persona will store user information. The article discusses privacy concerns around this data collection partnership and the involvement of Peter Thiel, who chairs Palantir, a controversial data analytics company.
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· 3 pulledDiscord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel
The collaboration is described as an 'experiment' involving people in the UK specifically
Persona will store user information on th
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