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Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by shakna »

Hawxy wrote: post #29
Morromist wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As Argento Dragone said in the Kotaku comments: "Face scanning is used to do ID verification on your device and then deleted immediately." "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do." "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification." "Persona clarified that by 'immediately' they mean 'after seven days.'" "And given their ties to Palantir, it's probably fine. You t…

> "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do." People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to discord from your local device, which probably still works. There's no evidence your facial scans leave the device. > "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification." Which isn't true, it was a UK-only experiment be…

After the last screwup, by the same company, why would you trust the data to stay on your device?

> Of the accounts impacted globally, we have identified approximately 70,000 users that may have had government-ID photos exposed, which our vendor used to review age-related appeals.

And by same company, I don't mean discord. I mean Persona.

https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incide...

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by metalman »

jacquesm wrote: post #36
stavros wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, he definitely has gone off the rails lately with all the talk about the antichrist being a literal existing being with emissaries on earth. I haven't been watching his stuff but the little I've seen was unhinged.

Thiel lost the plot long ago, just like his PayPal buddy did. The money went to their heads. 300 years into the future some historian will publish a book: "The downfall of the USA traced back to the PayPal Mafia".

for which Gretta is the litteral, antidote, as she has NO money, or such vanishingly small personal funds as to be of no account, yet hiches rides on sailboats to show up and berate parliments in there well worn lairs, her speach to the british parliment bieng a clear sign that she wont back down , and much worse, has such impecable manners that she mistook there talking and joking to be a technical mallfunction with her microphone. And now after her capture by the ZGF (zionist genocide force), and stare down with there chief torturer/jailer, she has vanished from all major media. So that Gretta and that Peter, are in fact polar oposites in almost every sense.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by rsynnott »

delaminator wrote: post #14
tjpnz wrote: post #6

Is this the same Peter Thiel who gives lectures on Greta Thunberg being the literal anti-christ?

[flagged]

"The insane person didn't say _that_ insane thing, they said a _different_ insane thing!"

I mean, not sure it helps much.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by toofy »

Hawxy wrote: post #29
Morromist wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As Argento Dragone said in the Kotaku comments: "Face scanning is used to do ID verification on your device and then deleted immediately." "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do." "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification." "Persona clarified that by 'immediately' they mean 'after seven days.'" "And given their ties to Palantir, it's probably fine. You t…

> "By immediately I mean we send it to k-ID who said that's what they do." People have already validated this fyi. When k-ID was first added you could send a bogus age result to discord from your local device, which probably still works. There's no evidence your facial scans leave the device. > "By that I mean they partnered with Persona to do the actual verification." Which isn't true, it was a UK-only experiment be…

was it “uk only” or was it the only place that required them to notify users theyre being experimented on?

we know US law allows tech companies to experiment on us without notifying at all. facebook was caught experimenting on users to see if a timeline full of sad posts would cause the users to become depressed.

im guessing his companies will get ahold of discord users data in most other countries. i’d be shocked if he only wants data from a tiny number of UK people.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by uyzstvqs »

Can't we just do this age verification locally on-device? Just some WASM to run a small AI model, which scans face+ID.

I know it'll be easier to bypass, but that does not matter. We're trying to stop children, not adults with technical skill.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by jasonvorhe »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #45

Can't we just do this age verification locally on-device? Just some WASM to run a small AI model, which scans face+ID. I know it'll be easier to bypass, but that does not matter. We're trying to stop children, not adults with technical skill.

It's not about age verification but control and digital id.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by notyourwork »

rockskon wrote: post #12

"Discord Distances itself from Peter Thiel's Palantir Age Verification Firm" means jack shit if they're still doing business with them. And Discord has approached this in such a monstrously awful way that I don't know what they could possibly say at this point to make me believe them. I fully expect Discord will buddy-buddy right back up with some other Thiel-affiliated company if there is a separation if not go righ…

Ding ding ding. Matter of time, this is merely damage control until the news cycle fades into the next.

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by notyourwork »

uyzstvqs wrote: post #45

Can't we just do this age verification locally on-device? Just some WASM to run a small AI model, which scans face+ID. I know it'll be easier to bypass, but that does not matter. We're trying to stop children, not adults with technical skill.

Is a face scan accurate enough to do that with 100% accuracy?

Re: Discord distances from age verification firm after ties to Peter Thiel surface

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Post by dgxyz »

metalman wrote: post #42
jacquesm wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thiel lost the plot long ago, just like his PayPal buddy did. The money went to their heads. 300 years into the future some historian will publish a book: "The downfall of the USA traced back to the PayPal Mafia".

for which Gretta is the litteral, antidote, as she has NO money, or such vanishingly small personal funds as to be of no account, yet hiches rides on sailboats to show up and berate parliments in there well worn lairs, her speach to the british parliment bieng a clear sign that she wont back down , and much worse, has such impecable manners that she mistook there talking and joking to be a technical mallfunction with…

This almost as bonkers as Thiel. Just the other way around.

Truths are always somewhere in the middle.

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