While age verification seems to be a requirement in the age of the modern internet, persona as a company has shown they cannot be trusted with user data, especially with a recent breach in privacy. This breach has even resulted in discord dropping it as vendor. Not only has persona had that breach, it has collected data and has been accessed by things LIKE openAI and puts people on a WATCH LIST.

Please, vrchat, if you care about your userbase's safety and the longevity of your platform, it is genuinely in your best interest to find another means to age verification. This is an invasion of user privacy, and while I can respect wanting to maintain safety for adults and minors, there has to be an alternative to persona!

sources: https://cybernews.com/privacy/persona-leak-exposes-global-surveillance-capabilities/