Overview
- Discord is preparing a phased worldwide rollout in early March that makes a teen-appropriate default the norm and requires age checks to unlock mature features.
- Support materials state UK users may be in an experiment where Persona processes selfies or IDs with temporary storage of submissions for up to seven days and blurs all details except a photo and date of birth.
- Discord previously said facial age estimation selfies would stay on-device and that vendor-handled documents would be deleted quickly, creating confusion over how the UK test operates.
- Discord told Kotaku the Persona work was a limited test that has concluded, even as reports note some UK users have already been prompted to verify through Persona.
- Coverage highlights Persona’s backing from Founders Fund, associated with Peter Thiel, and recalls prior third-party data incidents involving Discord that are intensifying user concerns.