As a European citizen I hope it becomes law to have this data processed in the EU rather than the US.
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Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#82A good reminder of how things actually work, but the article could use some more balancing… > Let that sink in. You scanned your European passport for a European professional network, and your data went exclusively to North American companies. Not a single EU-based subprocessor in the chain. LinkedIn is an American product. The EU has had 20 years to create an equally successful and popular product, which it failed t…
That response reeks of astonishing arrogance. It doesn’t surprise me that nearly 50% of Americans voted for Donald Trump he perfectly embodies that mindset. Do you genuinely believe you are superior to the rest of the world? What you call “innovation” or a “better product” is often nothing more than the creation of dominant market positions through massive, capital deployment, followed by straightforward rent extract…
Maybe 30% of Americans voted for Donald Trump. This response reeks of ignorance and hubris.
> Do you genuinely believe you are superior to the rest of the world?
This assertion wasn't made, in any way, by the person you're replying to, and it sounds as though it's being asked in anger. This entire conversation has been about data privacy and stewardship. The OP has pointed out, correctly, that there's nothing that has prevented a EU based professional social network from existing in a way that is satisfying for EU based data policy.
If you sign up on an American website, you've decided to do business with Americans in America. Why are you entitled to something that the people you are doing business with are not subject to?
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#83> And look at who’s doing “Data Extraction and Analysis” — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Groqcloud. Three AI companies are processing your passport and selfie data.
That's quite cool, it means that soon models will be able to create a fake ID photos with real data.
I'm so excited about it! /s
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#84So basically 'Their “global network of data partners”' means once you submit that information, it's a free for all.
There's so many angles of grind with this kind of thing that big tech has gradually normalised.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#85More interesting that LinkedIn use fingerprinting everywhere and connect your personal data to every device you are using and connect to other services connected to their network.
... i'm pretty sure every website does this lol. Aggressive fingerprinting is so easy to implement and so high ROI from a security/marketing perspective.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#86As a European citizen I hope it becomes law to have this data processed in the EU rather than the US.
My wife works for a competitor of the company mentioned. They are in EU. Still run everything on AWS. The data collected is usually even more than what stated, full video recording of the session with audio etc.
AWS EU region is not doing much, and I suspect most companies run on US providers. EU needs independent platform for this to matter.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#87The content is of course 100% true and needs to be repeated over and over, every single day. The straight-from-LLM writing style is incredibly grating and does a massive disservice to its importance. It really does not take that long to rewrite it a bit. I hope at least he wrote it on his local Llama instance, else it's truly peak irony. > Here’s the thing about the DPF: it’s the replacement for Privacy Shield, which…
Even the title is AI slop. Surprised these slop posts do so well on HN of all platforms but I guess they're just high volume. AI-ese is becoming its own dominant language group at this point
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#88The content is of course 100% true and needs to be repeated over and over, every single day. The straight-from-LLM writing style is incredibly grating and does a massive disservice to its importance. It really does not take that long to rewrite it a bit. I hope at least he wrote it on his local Llama instance, else it's truly peak irony. > Here’s the thing about the DPF: it’s the replacement for Privacy Shield, which…
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#89> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...
Yeah was thinking the same thing. I wonder if the author didnt known that passpory chip == fingerprint. And FP is a much worse modality to have registered because, as opposed to Face image, fingerprint is not affected by age. So that will match you 99.999999% for ever. Faces change.
I naievely assumed fingerprints were trivial to change but on further reading they are a remarkable biomarker
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#90Here's where you went wrong: you're on LinkedIn.
Since it's your first time, this one is free, I'll be collecting micropayments for future advice, rest assured.