“Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts”

[scottwilson@infosec.exchange]

“Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found tied to U.S. surveillance efforts”

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No no no, Fortune! Let me help you with a rewrite:
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“Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel–backed verification software after people got mad about its ties to U.S. surveillance efforts, and canceled their accounts en masse”

#privacy #discord #DissDiscord

https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

[cosmicktrigger@mastodon.social]

@scottwilson

That's what I said in response to another post about this. They didn't back down because of the Panopticon-like bullshit, they backed down because of public backlash

[harmoniousanger@zeroes.ca]

@scottwilson It's not like they're going to tell us what *works* in the class war.

[dontreportme@mastodon.online]

@scottwilson
Some things got to be too much

[gimulnautti@mastodon.green]

@scottwilson Thank you, journalists!

Some things are still working, all hope is not lost.

[meigahub@mastodon.social]

Scott Wilson en Mastodon anuncia que Discord ha cortado relaciones con una herramienta de verificación de identidad apoyada por Peter Thiel debido a las preocupaciones de privacidad en masa de los usuarios, quienes cancelaron sus cuentas en desprotesa. #PrivacidadDigital #Discord #OpenSourceAI #Automatizacion #IA #SelfHosting

"Discord termina su colaboración con el software de verificación de identidad respaldado...

[celeste_42bit@infosec.exchange]

@scottwilson Trust. Broken. Forever.
Fuck you, Discord.

The problem isn't Peter Thiel, per se.
He was just the neo-Nazi cherry on top.
The mass surveillance technique called "age verification" is the actual problem here.

[waldschnecke@chaos.social]

@scottwilson We've been shown countless times that capitalistic oriented %anything does not care about users.

I'm sorry to say that, but anyone who believes a word they are saying is a fool, they can't care less what their user-base wants, and the data is already in the databases of persona and palantir.

All they care is to keep the (future) shareholders happy - they plan to IPO.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/07/discords-ipo-could-happen-in-march/