Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Persona, partially funded by Peter Thiel’s venture firm Founders Fund, continues to provide age verification services for OpenAI, ...

Discord has ended its partnership with identity verification provider Persona after researchers discovered the company’s front-end code accessible online and on a US government-authorised endpoint.

Discord, the popular platform for gamers to communicate online, is postponing its controversial age verification policy after receiving swift backlash from users with concerns about their privacy. The ...

As Discord begins rolling out age assurance ID checks and face scans globally, the workarounds are only getting smarter. Only last year, I used Norman Reedus' glorious face to get around it, but one ...

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"We leverage an advanced machine learning model developed at Discord to predict whether a user falls into a particular age group based on patterns of user behavior and several other signals associated ...

Communication platform Discord is under fire after an identity verification software it used, Persona Identities, was found to have front-end code accessible on the open internet. Nearly 2,500 ...