Mastodawn

If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies.

https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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BrianKrebs Feb 21

The CEO of Persona responded to this post, saying they wanted to clarify about the identity verification process. They said:

"The only subprocessors (8) used are: AWS, Confluent, DBT, ElasticSearch, GCP, MongoDB, Sigma Computing, and Snowflake

All biometric personal data is deleted immediately after processing.

All other personal data processed is automatically deleted within 30 days. Data is retained during this period to help users troubleshoot.

No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is explicitly used to confirm your identity.

The subprocessors used do NOT include Anthropic, Groqcloud, or OpenAI. The referenced subprocessor list is the superset of subprocessors used across all customers which is unfortunately misleading - we are updating our documentation to make this clearer going forward (thank you for helping us realize this). Our customers select which products are used which determines which subprocessors are used."

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦

Feb 21

@briankrebs and if you believe this from a company where the executives hide from the public, explicitly authoritarian goals of irreversibly identifying everyone online, and direct ties to outspoken Nazis and fascists through funding?

Then all you need to do is pay the $5000 processing fee in Visa gift cards, and I can transfer you $500M USD from the Euorpean lottery tomorrow.

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RootWyrm 🇺🇦

@briankrebs which is to say: absofuckingloutely Persona is lying. They've lied the whole time. These are the same dipshits that left their entire system exposed which revealed that, surprise! They're storing all the biometrics permanently and just straight lying about everything top to bottom!