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
Show threadPaul Healey
@nickpeers Time to quit all the U.S. monopolies before their antitrust ruins the USA and Europe? Without them Trump’s insanity could lose its frightening grip on International law that his Dept. of War has unleashed. Corporations are not people. Neither should their power be greater than the democratic rights of diverse interests! To be sure Corporate Sovereignty is not Republic Sovereignty! Neither is absolute monarchy parliamentary monarchy! #NoAbsoluteMonarchs #NoDictators
Mar 8 at 7:27amWeb