CommanderLeSuck (@CommanderLeSuck@mastodon.social)
A great writeup on why not to use LinkedIn’s verification. Or did you purposely want to hand out all your private data to US companies?
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
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dnkrupinski (@dnkrupinski@hannover.town)
Falls auch ihr vorhabt, #LinkedIn Lebewohl zu sagen: Das Konto gleich löschen, nicht deaktivieren – wenn ihr das Konto später löschen wollte, müsst ihr es vorher erst wieder reaktivieren.
Ein deaktiviertes Konto kann nicht direkt gelöscht werden! 😡
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maijanlainen (@maijanlainen@mementomori.social)
I was thinking about boundaries and LinkedIn.
One day on LinkedIn I saw the same man on my feed twice, once he was complaining when people reject his devil's-advocate comments in their posts, because "you shouldn't be online unless you want to be interacted with" (and that is a very bad take, not far away from lengths of skirt), later that day he was upset that someone had given him a negative comment and he'd had to block them so he wouldn't get "bad comments" that tarnish his profile. That is an interesting interior world view to have.
I've adopted a delete comment approach on LinkedIn. When I write about my professional opinions and insights on a professional platform, having some man twenty years my junior who didn't exist for many years yet before the year I started playing video games giving me aggressive and derogatory comments, I find engaging in bad faith "discourse" a completely meaningless exercise of wasting time, when ten out of ten times these tend to be thinly veiled attacks on my person rather than the subject matter at hand. Which is not something I want a potential recruiter to read on my professional profile about my person.
Deleting a comment is less drastic than blocking someone, and you don't need to have a whole conversation about it. Just delete and proceed with your life.
Having boundaries doesn't make you a bad person. It actually gives you more space for yourself physically and mentally, and having that makes you more balanced and self-assured. Calmer. You don't need to take anything online that you wouldn't take on the street in your regular life.
#boundaries #settingboundaries #linkedin
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dnkrupinski (@dnkrupinski@hannover.town)
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Ivovanwilligen/116110881126241280
Nachdem ich diesen Beitrag gelesen habe, weiß ich, was mit meinem pausierten #LinkedIn-Account in den kommenden Tagen passieren wird …
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liz (@liz@chaos.social)
Ein sehr guter Artikel darüber, wohin eigentlich Reisepass- und biometrische Daten wandern, wenn man sich bei LinkedIn verifiziert.
Lesenswert!
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
#LinkedIn #CloudAct #BiometrischeDaten #GDPR #DigitalSouvereignity
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decembr14 (@decembr14@mastodon.scot)
‘I wanted the blue checkmark on LinkedIn. The one that says “this person is real.” In a sea of fake recruiters, bot accounts, and AI-generated headshots, it seemed like a smart thing to do.’
Well… probably not.
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
#Privacy #Security #LinkedIn #GDPR
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2026 (@2026@blog.zaramis.se)
Discords id-kontroll använder sig av tjänsterna från ett företag som heter Persona Identities Inc för sina id-kontroller. Företaget har sitt huvudkontor i San Francisco, USA och information som Persona samlar in skickas vidare till 17 andra företag som alla utom ett finns i USA.
https://blog.zaramis.se/2026/02/22/discords-id-kontroll-skickar-all-information-till-usa/
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graste (@graste@social.vivaldi.net)
„I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over.“
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
„The whole thing took three minutes. Scan, selfie, done.
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.
All for a small blue checkmark on a professional networking site.“
#privacy #GDPR #personaidentities #Microsoft #Linkedin #biometrics #cloudact
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eelcoa (@eelcoa@mastodon.nl)
RE: https://social.tchncs.de/@vdbijl/116113457501860620
Lees dit eerst voordat je ook maar overweegt om je id te verifiëren door #linkedin
Je volledige #privacy het raam uit. 16 Amerikaanse bedrijven krijgen alles over je te weten, persoons- en gedragsgegevens.
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gnyman (@gnyman@infosec.exchange)
Feels like the anti-age verification people are shooting themselves in the foot without realising it.
Companies need to follow the law (if you disagree with the law, talk to the politicians, don't blame the companies).
Discord decided to use k-id for age verification which seems very good for your privacy. It processes your data mostly client side and just sends the results.
So of course some entrepreneuring hackers figured out how to game it.
https://github.com/amplitudesxd/discord-k-id-verifier
Great job! So now you force them to do the verification on the server side, which requires uploading the raw data and processing it there, like linked-in is doing, which seems like a clearly worse thing. (To be fair Linked-In wants to verify your identity, not only your age category so apples vs oranges but the point still stands).
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
#discord #ageverification #linkedin
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