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Discord’s Quiet Data Harvest: How a Peter Thiel-Linked Experiment Swept Up Millions of UK Users Without Their Knowledge
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Discord’s Quiet Data Harvest: How a Peter Thiel-Linked Experiment Swept Up Millions of UK Users Without Their Knowledge
For years, Discord has positioned itself as the digital living room for gamers, hobbyists, and communities of every stripe. But a recent revelation has exposed a far less cozy dimension to the platform’s operations: millions of UK-based Discord users were unwitting participants in a data collection experiment linked to Palantir Technologies co-founder Peter Thiel, raising urgent questions about consent, surveillance capitalism, and the blurred l…
Good news, UK Discord users, we're part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection "experiment"
Discord have belatedly confirmed that they're working with Persona, an identity detection firm backed by a fund directed by Palantir chairman Peter Thiel, as part of Discord's new global age verification system rollout. The collaboration is described as an "experiment" involving people in the UK specifically, whereby Persona will store user information on their servers for up to seven days.
Users of Discord and Reddit are confronted with new barriers to age verification, which are deeply rooted in privacy. In the background, the service provider Persona acts, which is financed by Geleder by Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel. (Continue reading)
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