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Post by locknitpicker »

talkingtab wrote: post #111

Somehow the fundamentals of places like linkedin, gmail, google, facebook, etc have eluded people. 1. they are selling you as a target. 2. some people, governments, groups, whatever are willing to pay a lot of money to obtain information about you. 3. why would someone pay good money to target you unless they were going to profit from doing so. are they stupid? no. 4. where does that profit come from? If some one is…

> Somehow the fundamentals of places like linkedin, gmail, google, facebook, etc have eluded people.

LinkedIn is slightly different, as it's fundamentally framed as a job board and recruiting platform. The paying customers are recruiters, and the product is access to the prospective candidates. Hence, LinkedIn offering for free services such as employee verification, work history verificarion, employee vouching, etc.

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Post by pisanvs »

so their "shady" network of subprocessors are just the companies that already have all of your data? wow. I'm pretty sure I use most if not all of them in my own stack.

In any case, I don't know how much more ad money they'll extract from knowing what I look like. Maybe beauty products?

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Post by jll29 »

llm_nerd wrote: post #28
elAhmo wrote: post #21

From the article: > 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. Not sure LinkedIn is a European professional network.

Their use of LinkedIn is for local and semi-local professional networks. It's like if you use Nextdoor for your street. And of course those Europeans use LinkedIn for the network effect (even though LinkedIn is just a pathetic sad dead mall now, so most are doing so for an illusion), because other prior waves of Europeans also used LinkedIn, and so on. Domestic or regional alternatives falter because everyone demands…

I would prefer to live in a free country, where I can choose my services from among a couple of options. But the government you appeal to should install and execute laws to protect citizens by forcing foreign players to abide by local rulse or be forced to declare that they are not, in large red letters so no-one can say they did not know (legalese small-print does not suffice as we know).

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Post by tqi »

> Persona extracts the mathematical geometry of your face from your selfie and from your passport photo. This isn’t just a picture — it’s a numerical map of the distances between your eyes, the shape of your jawline, the geometry of your features. It’s data that uniquely identifies you. And unlike a password, you can’t change your face if it gets compromised

Is there anything special about a passport photo, or can that be done from any photo of your face?

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Post by lionkor »

pisanvs wrote: post #122

so their "shady" network of subprocessors are just the companies that already have all of your data? wow. I'm pretty sure I use most if not all of them in my own stack. In any case, I don't know how much more ad money they'll extract from knowing what I look like. Maybe beauty products?

It can be simple things like using your race, hair color, etc. to infer things about you and treat you differently.

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Post by jll29 »

casenmgreen wrote: post #69
prox wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I also feel that digital companies get away with “no human representatives”. I should always have access to a human. It should be law. It will screw over a lot of companies and I am all for it since they don’t know what service looks like if it looked them in the eyes.

Having this problem with Amazon right now, trying to get a GDPR deletion done.

The rule for not replying to GDPR requests (e.g. sent by registered letter) holds within a month: the maximum fine for this is 4% of last years total revenue or 20 mio €, whichever is the larger number.

For US companies use their (typically Dublin) European HQs.

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Post by Saline9515 »

register wrote: post #63
csmpltn wrote: post #36

A 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…

Why can't the EU deploy capital? Regulation doesn't create better products, more aggressive marketing techniques, or deeply entrepreneurial mindsets which favor innovation and growth.

While OP is quite aggressive here, there is a nugget of truth: innovation doesn't happen because "we have the best lawyers" or "the best regulations". Maybe some self-criticism would be warranted to solve the problem.

Also nothing forces Europeans to use LinkedIn. I deleted my account long ago after getting search requests from NSA-adjacent private intel companies.

Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over

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Post by Nextgrid »

8cvor6j844qw_d6 wrote: post #118

Seeing some of my colleagues verify through Persona on LinkedIn, and I can't quite figure out what they're getting out of it. Every hiring process I've been through already requires proof of identity at some point. Background checks, I-9s, whatever it may be. So you're essentially handing your ID to a third party just to get a badge that doesn't skip any steps you'd have to do anyway.

The badge could (I don't know, haven't done it yet) help you differentiate yourself in a sea of monkeys slinging ChatGPT'd profiles from a third-world boiler room.

(whether it actually does or the monkeys now got a steady source of fake/stolen IDs is another matter)

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