Persona identity verification

“We really need Firefox Persona back...”

“LinkedIn might force me to verify through Thiel's Persona platform. Which I very much would not want to do”

“I will not give google my ID , neither Persona or anyone else.”

“Verifying your identity with a government ID and linking that to AI is the dream of a surveillance state.”

“who lobbied governments were YOTI, Persona, K-ID and others who have a vested interest in collecting data”

“I hate that I have to share biometrics and blindly trust that Persona is doing cybersecurity properly.”

“Also required you to verify via Persona.”

“Why assume any responsibility when you can just outsource and shrug/blame the 3rd-party when they get breached.”

“I don't want my id data end up with persona and/or the us gov.”

“services still require you to do identity verification but it involves sending your government ID and face video to Thiel-affiliated Persona”

“I had way better Personas”

“Why not just launch using Persona rather than RYO?”

“And let's say Persona is actually ok; who knows, they might be? But it's still an extra surface”

“I'm pretty sure Person is quite trustworthy.”

“persona doesn't detect aadhaar card and their support system on twitter/mail whatever was incredibly bad”

“Persona is easy to implement, has all the compliance requirements, and is in line with market prices.”

“Every copy of the Persona SDK contains a hardcoded AES-256-GCM encryption key in TrackingEventUtilsKt.java line 22”

“who are they? who are their investors? will the leak my information accidentally/accidentally-on-purpose/on-purpose?”

“I was never able to pass this succefully.”

“Persona can be a shell org with 20 evil engineers while their partners absentmindedly do the integration work.”

“Discord users globally were being coerced into handing over their ID to this American surveillance tech”

“That was a great read, very interesting!”

“The differences in proclaimed data retention periods is concerning though.”

“I definitely recommend reading this primary source before drawing conclusions”

“it is kind of scary how often these types of situations are only found out because of wild incompetence”

“This of course brings up the problem of having to verify the ID of the person who's requesting their ID to be deleted”

“there's no hard, irrefutable proof companies like Persona (intimately connected with known law abusers, ie US government) keep their promises or obey the law.”

“There are so many keywords in there that should raise a red flag, but funded by Peter Thiel should probably be enough.”

“a dedicated KYC processor, like Persona, with actual security team/mindset, handles this”

“his claim that the data isn't used for training by companies that are publicly known to have illegally acquired data to train their models doesn't look very serious”

“if you let Persona verify your identity you're essentially providing data enrichment for the US government”

“I'm not convinced there's any significant overlap between "people who are worried about which subprocessors have their data" and "people who don't think that eight subprocessors is a lot"”

“Because it's Persona you can also count on every ICE body cam that is having facial recognition performed by Palantir has access to this data.”

“They will offer it as a more "privacy conscientious" option to persona”

“Discord is using Persona because it’s backed by Thiel and the “Founders Fund”. They want your data.”

“The messaging framing hurts you. The moment Persona is compared to a human EA, you lose on judgment, context, and trust.”

“Persona is an email delegation layer that handles inbound scheduling end-to-end”

“I always get a "congrats you're done" screen with a green checkmark from Persona, nothing to click, and my account stays unverified.”

“handled this email validation well with a fallback provider that used the same flow”

“Persona got a lot of things right”