Nick PeersMar 7

So Amazon are now using Persona for ID checks too on buyers - my 18-year-old daughter has just lost a gift voucher because having let her add it to her account, they promptly cancelled an order she placed using the gift balance and are demanding she upload digital ID. Attempts to fix this over the phone have failed and long story short, the money she was given appears to be lost unless she's prepared to hand Persona her details.

A reminder why this is a bad idea: https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.

I wanted a blue badge on LinkedIn. To get it, I gave a US company my passport, my face, and my biometric data. Then I read the fine print.

THE LOCAL STACK
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@nickpeers
It's spreading.
I bookmarked a post on here earlier today listing the outfits that they believed were pushing for this, but it appears to have been deleted before I got a chance to review it.
Seems though, like it is the likes of Amazon and Meta who want to harvest everyone's biometrics, with the Palantir backed Persona juggling the data for them.
Mar 7 at 8:02pmWeb
Show threadKevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦Mar 7
@MostlyTato @nickpeers if it was the one from sparrow / krstlworks at techhub dot social, there was some info in it that couldn't be factually confirmed re: the funding sources of Oak Foundation. (It may still have been true, but was presented as fact despite being unverified, so it seems they felt it was best to retract it)
Show threadMostlyTatoMar 8
@kboyd @nickpeers
I suspected the reason would be something like that. I didn't get a chance to take notes though, just book for later.