Fortune: #Discord cuts ties with #PeterThiel-backed verification software after its #code was found tied to U.S. #surveillance efforts - https://web.archive.org/web/20260224100715/https://fortune.com/2026/02/24/discord-peter-thiel-backed-persona-identity-verification-breach/

#Persona basically left their code accessible on a #USGovernment endpoint. Researchers looked.

Yeah, they know what you say on #SocialMedia, #FacialIdentity, and 267 other things to identify and profile you.

#PersonalIdentity #AgeVerification #SpyWare #PersonaIdentities #hack #hackers #WhiteHat

[en] Are natural faces and facial #deepfakes perceived and remembered in the same way?

"... we investigated the most studied process of face cognition: perceptual matching and #discrimination of facial identity ... identity discrimination of natural and synthetic faces is governed by the same underlying perceptual mechanisms ..."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2451958824001969

#deepfake #facialidentity #syntheticidentity #perceptual #perception #facialrecognition #ai #artificialintelligence #science #societalrisks