Discord is testing Persona as an age‑verification partner in the UK, a vendor backed by Peter Thiel

Discord is testing Persona as an age‑verification partner in the UK, a vendor backed by Peter Thiel – Discord is testing a third‑party age‑verification partner called Persona with some UK users (described to users as “an experiment”) – Persona’s biggest investor in its last two funding rounds is Fou

Discord is testing Persona as an age‑verification partner in the UK, a vendor backed by Peter Thiel

– Discord is testing a third‑party age‑verification partner called Persona with some UK users (described to users as “an experiment”)
– Persona’s biggest investor in its last two funding rounds is Founders Fund, co‑founded and run by Peter Thiel
– Discord said in March it will start checking users’ ages globally; PC Gamer reported non‑adult IDs will require face scans or government IDs
– Discord already works with another age‑verification company called k‑ID and is testing Persona in the UK due to the 2025 Online Safety Act requirement
– Discord previously said facial age‑verification data would stay on users’ devices, but a new support article says Persona data “will be temporarily stored for up to 7 days, then deleted”
– Peter Thiel was mentioned over 2,200 times in the released Epstein files; critics including EFF’s Rindala Alajaji have argued the initial outcry over Discord’s plan was justified

@Games