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irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ·
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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune

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Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune

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irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ·
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Discord distances itself from Peter Thiel–backed verification software after its code was found on a U.S. government server | Fortune
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Discord used at least three separate age-verification vendors since October after a third-party vendor breach hit 70,000 users.
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  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    If you’re doing it after the scandal then your issue is not whatever provoked that scandal, it’s the scandal itself.

    Fuck Discord and fuck everything Discord.

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      Yup, this is too late

    • Chakravanti@monero.town
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      I smelled it glancing at their spam op “service” which rather explains Orion’s from Ben Nova.

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    what’s up with linking to reddit just to link to https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/ though?

    • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Fixed. Don’t know how I managed to do that.

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        You didn’t fix. I just almost went sheddit.

    • irelephant [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Because I copied the wrong link 🤦‍♂️

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