Veit Schiele5d ago
Have you had your identity verified on LinkedIn to get the blue tick? If so, I’m afraid I have to tell you that your passport, ID and biometric data are now stored with ‘Persona Identities’, a company funded by Peter Thiel, which has already been cross-referenced with numerous US government databases. This data is shared with any US authorities at their discretion.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
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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.

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@veit Worse, LinkedIn randomly locks out accounts and requires the owner to provide ID in order to unlock it (and "prove they are human").

Citation: It happened to my account.

Edit: here is LinkedIn's documentation

https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a1342692

It also uses Persona.

Other options to verify are filing an affidavit and using a work email address, so providing ID isn't the only option.

But not everyone has a work email setup. Moreover, I don't know how they handle the account name not being a person's legal name (e.g. trans people in states which don't let them change their name).

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