Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Sue me" is what a purely cis-Atlantean company might say.
Which is of course exactly what is happening with the likes of Google and Meta.
...both of which have offices in the EU.
I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
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Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#222I almost fell for a very sophisticated phishing attack last December and most of the "verifiable" information was from my LinkedIn account. For each role I had described some of the tasks and accomplishments and this was used in the phishing message. Since then, I removed my photo, changed my name only to initials and removed all the role-specific information. It's a bit of a bummer as I'm currently in the process of…
I'm routinely shocked how biased people I work with are against individuals without a linkedin page. So many hiring managers across 15 years in my industry won't consider people without pages. One guy goes on rants how people are "sketchy" if they don't have a verified page and a lot of skill endorsements and testimonials! He'll pull up our vendors pages and check them out during meetings, complain if it isn't available or complete. I used to keep mine very minimal and locked down but I felt pressure from peers to flesh is out and keep it public which I hate.
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#223Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#224I 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…
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#225Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#226This is all bad, but I feel compelled to call out the “geolocation (inferred from your IP)” tidbit, because I can vouch that in the era of IPv4 scarcity, this value is often wildly wrong. When I’m at home, for the past 10 years, living in three different cities in that time, my ISP-granted IP address registered as incorrect locations (often by hundreds of miles) more often than not. And my mobile phone is always wrong, showing me in Colorado, St Louis, or North Carolina depending on the day. None of those locations are even close to correct.
It’s truly a shame we are allowing these companies to steal and share and abuse our personal data, and it’s even worse that even the very basics of that data are so often blatantly wrong.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#227>The legal basis? Not consent.
You read and agreed with the terms explicitly stating the data would be used to do those things, and it was not at all necessary for you to do that. What else do you want? It seems like consent isn't the issue. You just don't like what this company does, and still volunteer your data for them to do just that. Now you regret it and write a blog post?
One thing is to be tricked or misled, or for a government to force your face to be scanned and shared with a third party. Another is to have terms explicitly saying this will be done, requiring explicit agreement, and no one forcing you to do it.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#228I hate LinkedIn but need it for a few things, mostly accessing certain clients and projects as a freelancer. Last October my ISP (Vodafone UK) assigned me a datacenter-classified IPv6 address with 80+ abuse reports on reputation databases, for bots, DDoS, crawlers. Before I realized this I started getting locked out, suspended, restricted from just about every web service I use, having to solve captchas for simple Go…
The nasty part of that is also that you can't even delete your account without getting back into it so you need to doxx yourself to even delete it :(
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#229Earlier 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.
Yes but the Irish privacy authority is just a front for US interests. Because the country makes so much money from big tech tax avoidance.
Re: I verified my LinkedIn identity. Here's what I handed over
#230I believe OpenAI used Persona during the verification step that you must complete to use their SOTA models in the API. Not sure if it's still the case now. Anyway, I found that too much of a hassle and switched to other LLM providers.
Similar experience here.
A few months back I was evaluating one of the GPT-5 models for a side project. Turns out streaming via the API requires org verification, and I decided to look elsewhere.
In hindsight, a good decision given what just came out about Persona.