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

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Post by dwedge »

stateofinquiry wrote: post #76
anttihaapala wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How about everyone gets a digital certification from their own government that this is the person named this and that. No need to share cranial measurements and iris scans.

Well, different trade offs there. On the plus side, sounds pretty simple. On the other hand... Digital certification from the gov sounds a lot like "digital ID", which has run into considerable resistance in the UK and EU in just the last few months. As a general observation I find most EU citizens I interact with much more trusting of government than ... well, any other group of folks I have interacted with (I have…

Having lived in borh the UK and Poland I was very surprised (given history) to find how comfortable, in comparison, Poles are with ID requirements, tax ID to join gyms and football clubs compared to the UK whicb still resists mandatory ID. There does seem to be a UK EU divide here

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

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Post by dwedge »

jll29 wrote: post #117
jofla_net wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why do these services have to suck so much. They can do what they please. Its due to the network effects. The tie-ins of tech are so strong, I'd wager that %99 of why they succeed has nothing to do with competency or making a product for the user, just that people are too immobile to jump ship for too many reasons. Its staggering how much stronger this is than what people give credit for. Its as if you registered a…

Someone needs to reimplement a "clean" version of its functionality: professional networking is too important to be left to the data hoarders/government surveillance cluster of organizations. Besides, its UX has decayed to a "Facebook for the employed", where John Doe praises himself for mastering a mandatory training at work or taking Introduction to HTML at "Harvard" via Coursera.

Nobody is coming to save us. A federated LinkedIn would be great but will not take over. We just need to stop using these services

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

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Post by pavel_lishin »

laszlojamf wrote: post #133

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two…

> your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet.

Why is that your assumption?

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

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Post by Nextgrid »

jll29 wrote: post #126
casenmgreen wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

> the maximum fine for this is 4% of last years total revenue or 20 mio €, whichever is the larger number.

The maximum fine wasn't even achieved by Facebook, after years and many blatant GDPR cases. Do you really think someone is getting a fine for not replying to a subject access request in due time? If so I have a very good bridge to sell you, and that bridge has more probability to exist than Amazon getting any kind of GDPR fine for not acknowledging a SAR.

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

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Post by laszlojamf »

troupo wrote: post #138
laszlojamf wrote: post #133

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two…

> We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two or three at most. So, in aggregate, all 17 data leeches are getting info. They are not getting info on all you users, but different subsets hit different subsets of the "subprocessors" you use. And there's literally no way of knowing whether or not my data hits "two" or "three" or all 17 "at the…

I agree that DPA:s, as they are written today, aren't good. I was just pointing out that the reality probably isn't as bad as the article made it sound.

> If you don't see this as a problem, you are a part of the problem

I think you're misunderstanding me. I'm just saying that there are way bigger fish to fry in terms of privacy on the internet than passport data. In the end, your face is on every store's CCTV camera, your every friends phone, and every school yearbook since you were a kid. Unless you ask all of them to also delete it once they are done with it.

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

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Post by ataru »

laszlojamf wrote: post #133

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two…

The problem with anyone using my face to identify me is that it's hard for me to leave home without it.

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

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Post by laszlojamf »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #143
laszlojamf wrote: post #133

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two…

> your _face_ is going to be _everywhere_ on the internet. Why is that your assumption?

Unless you have friends without phones and live in a city without cameras, I think that's a pretty fair assumption

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

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Post by 201984 »

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.

>Let that sink in

That's a hallmark of GPT spam, so it's not surprising there's hallucinations.

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

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Post by laszlojamf »

ataru wrote: post #146
laszlojamf wrote: post #133

I work in this space for a competitor to Persona, so take my opinion as potentially biased, but I have two points: 1. just because the DPA lists 17 subprocessors, it doesn't mean your data gets sent to all of them. As a company you put all your subprocessors in the DPA, even if you don't use them. We have a long list of subprocessors, but any one individual going through our system is only going to interact with two…

The problem with anyone using my face to identify me is that it's hard for me to leave home without it.

yes, that's why people _can_ identify you by it. Identification was the _purpose_ here.
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