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I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over. (thelocalstack.eu)

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This is a very good article about what happens when you agree to verify your Linkedin account, and probably any kind of big tech age verification process.

All your data including photographs are shared with a company called Persona, which is the invisible middleman nobody heads about. That company then shares your data with at least 17 huge big tech companies, including Anthropic, OpenAi, Groqcloud, AWS, Google Cloud, ResistantAI, MongoDB and others.

Understanding what I actually agreed to took me an entire weekend reading 34 pages of legal documents.

I handed a US company my passport, my face, and the mathematical geometry of my skull. They cross-referenced me against credit agencies and government databases. They’ll use my documents to train their AI. And if the US government comes knocking, they’ll hand it all over — even if it’s stored in Europe, even if I’m European, and possibly without ever telling me.

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[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) (1 children)

Jesus, so all of this age, id verification they are straight up telling us they are using it for commercial purposes and sharing it with data brokers and tech companies? I hope no one does it, and instead drops out and finds fediverse alternatives, this could be the trigger that gets critical mass, and gets the impetuous to make some new social media to meet the needs that corporate tech has refused us without unacceptable costs.

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An error occurred during a connection to thelocalstack.eu. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

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[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 7 hours ago

One can hope, but the masses are in a state of not caring. :)

The link works fine for me so I dont know what happens there.