dougaley

husband to amazing wife, proud father of 2 rambunctious boys, lover of travel & music, CEO at Paravision

[dougaley @dougaley]

We have been partners with Rick and the team at Persona for years. I know them to be some of the most genuine and thoughtful folks in the industry. Know it is so tough to trust these days, but the aim is true here.

[Rick Song @rickcsong]

We understand Discord is proceeding with age verification without Persona, but some of the implications in this blog post about the capabilities & features of our platform are patently false.

I’m fine if they don’t want to use us. I’m not okay with them publicly saying untrue things about our age assurance technologies to try to shift responsibility away from their own decisions. Doing so further erodes trust.

> We’ve set a new bar for any partner offering facial age estimation, including that it must be performed entirely on-device, meaning your biometric data never leaves your phone. Persona did not meet that bar.

We offer on-device age verification. We even offered credit-card based age verification for free (their new approach). We made this clear to Discord multiple times.

Throughout our partnership, Discord was explicitly looking for a provider who could prevent “fraud/deepfakes/bots/using video game photo mode to pass age check.”

We were transparent about the real technological limitations and capabilities of on-device solutions, which I shared elsewhere on this platform.

We were upfront that on-device solutions can create a “privacy for only the wealthy” problem where only those with higher-end devices would be able to run the necessary models.

We understood that they had experienced recent bypasses that could cause regulatory scrutiny.

Many of us here at Persona are huge fans of Discord and some have been users since 2015. We were eager and willing to partner with them to address all these challenges.

[dougaley @dougaley]

@yush @deborahquazzo @michaelmoe @pencil_app @asugsvsummit Great job @yush and @pencil_app team!!

[Jack Abraham @jackabraham]

Couldn’t be more excited to be cofounding OpenStore together with Keith @rabois! Great team so far and a huge opportunity ahead of us. Hiring fast so please reach out if you’d like to join!

[dougaley @dougaley]

@cfarivar @oliviasolon The thanks is deserved @cfarivar and @oliviasolon. While I did not agree with all of the angles of your story, that is not the point. Good journalism caused us to think beyond the law, leading to dramatic changes in the way we see the world. For that, I am ever grateful.

[dougaley @dougaley]

I continue to be in awe of how our technical team consistently performs on NIST testing and so happy that NIST now has leaderboards for both 1:N and face recognition accuracy with masks. Humbled to be working alongside this crew. Read more here: https://t.co/JOR3Lvt5Je

[Emmanuel Acho @EmmanuelAcho]

Dear white people,
For days you’ve asked me what you can do to help. I’ve finally found an answer.

Let your guard down and listen.

[dougaley @dougaley]

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[dougaley @dougaley]

Feeling so blessed today to be announcing the addition of Joey Pritikin to the Paravision team. I have known Joey since college. Beyond being a stellar human, Joey brings with him years and years of biometrics experience to help chart Paravision's future as Chief Product Officer.

[Haysom @H_aysom]

Big article alert for @wearehims & @AndrewDudum 🌵🚨🚨 'Hims Scored Big With Male Consumers. Can It Repeat The Trick With Women?' They are of course talking about the awesome @wearehers ✅ 🙋🏻‍♀️💄 So many pages to read via @Entrepreneur 📖👓 Go check it ➡️ https://t.co/fRX450j9Bh

[andrewdudum @AndrewDudum]

Go fast! pickup this month's edition of @Entrepreneur!!! Big old 6 page spread on Hims' growth, our incredible female leaders and how we're bridging the future of medicine to the masses! Great read and worth buying!

[dougaley @dougaley]

Congrats to the Ever AI team for absolutely crushing the recent NIST 1:1 Face Recognition Vendor Test. We placed #2 and #3 in the world on the Mugshot and Faces in the Wild tests, handily beating companies with a lot more resources and years in the space…https://t.co/FCPDoP8DCR

[dougaley @dougaley]

Everyone pay attention (especially you, big pharma). hims / hers doing it right. product(s), brand voice, design, distro, timing, hiring. Congrats on the Hers launch to @andrewdudum, Melissa Baird, Hilary Coles, Nima Nasoody, @joes…https://t.co/ukUju8p1Cw https://t.co/QCjxtte1c9

[dougaley @dougaley]

Such an amazing team being built at Hims. I have worked in the trenches with Melissa Baird at Zulily, and Hilary Coles and @@FusionForteinc in the consumer incarnation of Ever(album) (along with @andrewdudum). So proud (and semi-jealous TBH) that this a…https://t.co/AuEGpEdSyx

[dougaley @dougaley]

Couldn't be more excited about Atomic's new fund and the team that makes it all happen. Congrats to all involved! https://t.co/P9cb5MBLXd

[dougaley @dougaley]

A great round up of some of the issues surrounding bias in face recognition by our own Bhargav Avasarala. #facerecognition #nist ? https://t.co/YuuHVNQhEe

[dougaley @dougaley]

Huge shoutout to the whole at team Ever AI. What @Charles E. Rice and our engineering team just accomplished is nothing short of exceptional. More to come...

[dougaley @dougaley]

I don't post a lot (sorry / not sorry), but have to shout out to my wife Susan Aley and her life-long friend Andrea Cullerton for starting NotPaper Bags, an awesomely reusable alternative to gift wrap for anything giftable. Beautiful and fun patterns that…https://t.co/e7jlQS371g

[dougaley @dougaley]

San Francisco (maybe Seattle) peeps, let me know if you are looking for an absolutely incredible product leader / data science chief (leprechaun status). A friend / former colleague is starting his search. Very technical (ex MSFT, ex Intel) and entrepre…https://t.co/Zhw6GU43zi

[dougaley @dougaley]

Cheers to @ALCsooners and team Bungalow on the recent raise and the amazing opportunity that lies ahead. Go team Atomic! https://t.co/hkWXJo6YeZ

[dougaley @dougaley]

One of the most balanced write-ups on this issue from Ben Dixon at Daily Dot. Great work balancing the very real positive impacts of face recognition, alongside some of the potential risks when organizations do not use face recogni…https://t.co/JcCRKbT3KF https://t.co/MFZU7oO8Zn