Tech colonoscopy: A privacy expert has gone through the process of verifying on LinkedIn, a process that extracted every little piece of personal information about them, from passport photos to real names and real ID numbers. The culprit—a US-based and Thiel-backed startup named Persona, which is also the age verification provider at Discord and is getting broadly adopted by a bunch of other services too. The good news is that after the massive backlash over Persona's shady data handling and a user exodus to rival platforms, Discord has now dropped Persona.
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