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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)
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[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 35 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What? But Discord pinky promised that pictures would stay on my system, and be deleted immediately after verification. Are you implying that they lied? Pikachu shock face

[–] tyler@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

This title isn’t what the article says at all. There’s a secondary system completely separate from persona’s main system, that is seemingly tied to openai and government systems, most likely tied to ICE.

[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If that's what they said literally (pictures stay local) then they probably didn't say that the face data leaves the devices

[–] ttyybb@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'd have to double check, but I also don't think they said the picture would only be used for age verification.

[–] Trilogy3452@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/discord-clarifies-it-is-not-requiring-everyone-to-complete-a-face-scan-or-upload-an-id-and-will-confirm-your-age-group-using-information-we-already-have/

You will only be checked if you want access to adult servers or servers with adult sections, so there's a decent chance you won't be affected by the change either way. However, if Discord fails to properly verify you with the information it has, you will have to give your ID and/or a face scan "through trusted partners."

Discord says it only receives the age of users, and identity details given in the verification process are not associated with your account.

Perhaps partners will receive account info but Discord won't receive identity? If Discord collects and shares a lot of data then maybe they can correlate account metadata with identity