Just wait until GitHub starts requiring this.
I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
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#173Persona do not seem to be competent guardians of such a trove of private information. https://vmfunc.re/blog/persona
Thank you so much for sharing this. Not only is it a great post, but the site invokes such warm feelings of an internet long lost.
True, I love the little cat chasing the mouse in particular.
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#174Earlier 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.
The problem is a competitor will never be able to succeed without doing the same thing. Try to compete as a "free" service and you'll have to sell ads, try to charge and you'll never get enough signups to fund the business.
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#175Off topic -- the design for that blog is really slick. Added it to my "design swipe file."
Less off topic -- there are some black hat marketers that (I think) buy or create verified profiles with attractive women, then they use the accounts for b2b sales through linkedin DMs. I find that amusing. Neutered corpo bois are apparently big poon hounds. Makes sense when you think about it -- that type of guy is craving female attention and probably does not have the balls to do anything in real life, so a polite DM from a fake linkedin thot would be appealing.
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#176This is only going to become more common. Companies are implementing checks using similar services (a) to prevent employment scams (where the person who interviews is not the person who works; usually the latter is a low-paid offshore individual) and (b) basic security authentication. It won’t be long before this sort of biometric validation starts showing up to authenticate users on regular websites and similar serv…
Why would they need to do that? If you start working there you need to show up with your actual ID anyway.
Remote, multi location workforces, supervisors and workers thousands of miles apart.
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#177Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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…
But it makes a big difference if some CCTV camera captures my face and comes up with "unknown person" or if it finds my associated passport and other information.
By the way, ever since facebook was a thing I always asked my friends not to tag me in any photos and took similar measures at every opportunity to keep my data somewhat private.
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#178I verified my account and I handed over the same info as I handed over when I was getting MSFT Azure cert exam. So it was nothing special for me.
“I handed over a lot of personal information to my bank, so every website wanting the same level of access is nothing special to me.”
No point is, it is the same company handling data with exactly the same process.
They do it for all MSFT related stuff I guess.
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#179A 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…
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#180Those 17 sub processors are probably the most vanilla cloud computing companies you're going to find. Maybe you can complain about using one of the three LLM providers for doing OCR but there have been quite a few posts here about how LLMs are great for OCR.