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The news was even less well-received when Discord informed some UK users that they may be part of an "experiment" with an age verification provider called Persona, the lead investor of which, in its most recent rounds of capital funding, was a venture fund co-founded and directed by none other than Peter Thiel.

You know, the co-founder of Palantir, a surveillance technology firm that's been hitting headlines recently for working on apps to help track targets of the US government's deportation efforts. And claims that it may compile databases from the private information of US citizens. Naturally.

Discord later said that it had concluded testing with Persona's platform. Anyway, security and private data concerns around Persona's data verification efforts have been spreading, and now three security researchers say they've discovered a Persona frontend that was exposed to the open internet on a US government-authorised server (via Rage).

Source: PC Gamer