🚨😶 Exposed: OpenAI & Persona spy on users for US gov’t - Report

KYC provider Persona and OpenAI stand exposed as secret AI surveillance pipelines, funnelling user data straight to the US government, according to new research by Vmfunc.

Code references uncovered include intelligence codenames Project SHADOW and Project LEGION — names that belong in a Pentagon briefing.

OpenAI users submit to biometric tracking, political screening, and intelligence reporting.

🤳 Your selfie = Their watchlist

▪️Persona’s government dashboard—2,456 files, totaling 53 megabytes—was fully exposed on a FedRAMP‑authorised endpoint.

▪️Anyone could access source maps showing how the platform automatically files Suspicious Activity Reports (SARs) directly to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the US Department of the Treasury.

▪️A Shodan search revealed a Google Cloud instance with a revealing hostname: openai-watchlistdb.withpersona.com

▪️Certificate logs show it went live in November 2023.

▪️OpenAI has been reportedly running separate, fully compartmentalised watchlist screening systems for over two years.

🙅‍♂️ Checks you never knew about

▪️The codebase revealed 269 verification checks running silently.

▪️They include SelfieSuspiciousEntityDetection — facial recognition comparing you against global politicians.

▪️SSA deceased person lookups confirm whether you're alive enough to be suspicious.
▪️User data gets tagged SHADOW and LEGION before SARs are filed.

▪️Persona's own case study confirms OpenAI screens users across 225 countries.

▪️OpenAI can programmatically retrieve your documents via API. Your face scans are stored for three years—far longer than the publicly stated one-year retention—and once captured, this data is used broadly across systems.

😎 ONYX connection

▪️ONYX on Persona’s server—the same AI surveillance tool used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), reportedly costing $4.2 million, researchers found.

▪️ONYX can scrape over 300 platforms, analyse emotional sentiment, calculate risk scores from 28 billion data points, and flag individuals for ‘violent tendencies.’ It’s now tied to ChatGPT logins.

💸 Crypto wallets watched

▪️Persona allegedly shares cryptocurrency addresses with Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the US Department of the Treasury bureau.

▪️Passport photos, selfies, and Bitcoin wallets are now linked in a government database, monitored through Chainalysis.

If you've used OpenAI, Reddit, Roblox, or Discord, your face and biometrics are fully exposed to the government.

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