If you are on Linkedin and think of verifying your account, you may wish to read this first.

TL;DR:

• There are 17 companies that receive your data if you want Linkedin's blue checkmark, 16 sit in the US and 1 in Canada, none is in the EU
• In addition to your name, selfie, passport photo, Linkedin collects things like your NFC data chip, IP address, device type, MAC address, browser, OS version, location (based in the IP
• Linkedin also tracks whether you pause during the process, and whether you paste information instead of typing it
• They cross-reference you data consumer credit agencies, mobile phone provider, utility companies, ...
• Based on 'legitimate interest' (not consent), Linkedin forwards your data to train bots (Anthropic, OpenAI, Groqcloud)

Some more interesting stuff. The linked article also provides steps you can take if you are already a 'verified' Linkedin user.

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.

If we have any real plan for data sovereignty, the time to start implementing it is before I was born.

Comments

Persona maintains a public list of subprocessors aka third-party companies that process your personal data on their behalf. "If your data leaks? Persona’s Terms of Service cap their liability at $50 USD. Oh and you're also agreeing to a mandatory binding arbitration: you can't take them to court."

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