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

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Post by paulnpace »

aylmao wrote: post #288

I'll note that Persona's CEO responded on LinkedIn [1] pointing out that: - No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is exclusively used to confirm your identity. - All biometric personal data is deleted immediately after processing. - All other personal data processed is automatically deleted within 30 days. Data is retained during this period to help users troubleshoot. - The only subprocessor…

Whelp, so long as the CEO says it's fine, we've no reason to worry about what's in the legal verbiage.

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

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Post by nine_k »

ColinWright wrote: post #20

I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account. Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address. It would be int…

A LinkedIn account's sole purpose is publishing, dissemination, and advertising information about you and your company. Anything that you badly want to keep private certainly does not belong there, much like it does not belong to a large roadside billboard.

Otherwise, LinkedIn can be quite useful in searching for a job, researching a company, or getting to know potential coworkers or hires.

Email spam is, to my mind, an inevitability. You should expect waves of spam, no matter what address you use; your email provider should offer reasonable filtering of the spam. Using a unique un-guessable email address, like any security through obscurity, can only get you so far.

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

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Post by griffineyes »

ColinWright wrote: post #20

I used to have a LinkedIn account, a long time ago. To register I created an email address that was unique to LinkedIn, and pretty much unguessable ... certainly not amenable to a dictionary attack. I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account. Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address. It would be int…

It’s definitely not a fluke. I was getting between 20 and 30 spam emails per day. Simply out of curiosity I deleted my linkedin account and the spam abated. After a week the spam reduced to a trickle and now after a few months I only get a few spam emails per week. Shortly after discovering that LinkedIn was the problem I deleted Indeed as well. Indeed has a fairly robust data deletion program.

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

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Post by majormajor »

aylmao wrote: post #288

I'll note that Persona's CEO responded on LinkedIn [1] pointing out that: - No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is exclusively used to confirm your identity. - All biometric personal data is deleted immediately after processing. - All other personal data processed is automatically deleted within 30 days. Data is retained during this period to help users troubleshoot. - The only subprocessor…

But why believe that when their policy says any of it may not be true, or could change at any time?

Even if the CEO believes it right now, what if the team responsible for the automatic-deletion merely did a soft-delete instead of a hard delete "just in case we want to use it for something else one day"?

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

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Post by register »

csmpltn wrote: post #210
lp4v4n wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The EU has had 20 years to create an equally successful and popular product, which it failed to do. American companies don’t owe your European nationalist ambitions a dime. Use their products at your own discretion. I can see not everybody here will agree with me, but I find this take absolutely reasonable. The European space has the capacity and the resources to create a product that replaces something as trivial a…

> "The most recent issue is the military question. Europe relied for decades on the "cheap" protection of the USA. Now the USA gave the middle finger to Europe and Europe acts shocked, but Europe is not so shocked when it comes to the military budget it did not spend on self defense during all the time the Americans provided protection." Fully agree. Europe expects some kids from nowheresville Tennessee to die in a d…

But Britain lost 457 soldiers, Germany 62, France 90, Spain 97, Italy 53, Denmark 43 to aid USA in Afghanistan.

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

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

edoceo wrote: post #271

I've been getting "Emails aren’t getting through to one of your email addresses. Please update or confirm your email." -- even tho I get messages from them every day. When you press the button to confirm the (working) email it states "Something went wrong". It happened last week too, I was able to fix it via their chat-help (human). Yesterday, their chat-help (human) was not able fix it and has to open a ticket. I pa…

I have no proof but I have suspicions that call-center systems are designed like this on purpose. low-level employees are hamstrung in what they can do, so then they have to hand it off to someone else, with varying degrees of ceremony, which either involves submitting a "ticket" or transferring you to some other department who may or may not have higher privileges wrt what they can do to help you.

Then you might hit a wall where nobody can do anything because you're trapped in the gears of some byzantine IT system that decides what can and can't happen at any given time with any given situation.

Then there's the labyrinth of the phone system itself littered low-bit smooth jazz and awful menus not often alleviated by AI voice recognition (which in my experience can sometimes be worse than the older voice systems) and the back and forth from one department to the next either because of the above or because someone or something keeps sending you to the wrong people to get your problems addressed.

If it's not engineered, it's some kinda emergent eldritch abomination that has slowly accreted over the decades.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

register wrote: post #295
csmpltn wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "The most recent issue is the military question. Europe relied for decades on the "cheap" protection of the USA. Now the USA gave the middle finger to Europe and Europe acts shocked, but Europe is not so shocked when it comes to the military budget it did not spend on self defense during all the time the Americans provided protection." Fully agree. Europe expects some kids from nowheresville Tennessee to die in a d…

But Britain lost 457 soldiers, Germany 62, France 90, Spain 97, Italy 53, Denmark 43 to aid USA in Afghanistan.

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

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Post by reformdEngineer »

huhtenberg wrote: post #202
jll29 wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The original version of the LinkedIn mobile app uploaded your personal contacts stored on your smart phone and SIM to their server (to also "invite" them), without requesting user permission. After that, I never installed it again (but too late), and I bought a second (non-smart) phone.

WhatsApp infamously did just that. It vacuumed the contacts and spammed them with "Join me on WhatsApp". One of the reasons for their initial exponential growth.

Venmo did this too

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

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Post by saghm »

aylmao wrote: post #288

I'll note that Persona's CEO responded on LinkedIn [1] pointing out that: - No personal data processed is used for AI/model training. Data is exclusively used to confirm your identity. - All biometric personal data is deleted immediately after processing. - All other personal data processed is automatically deleted within 30 days. Data is retained during this period to help users troubleshoot. - The only subprocessor…

I'm not convinced there's any significant overlap between "people who are worried about which subprocessors have their data" and "people who don't think that eight subprocessors is a lot"

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

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Post by csmpltn »

register wrote: post #295
csmpltn wrote: post #210

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "The most recent issue is the military question. Europe relied for decades on the "cheap" protection of the USA. Now the USA gave the middle finger to Europe and Europe acts shocked, but Europe is not so shocked when it comes to the military budget it did not spend on self defense during all the time the Americans provided protection." Fully agree. Europe expects some kids from nowheresville Tennessee to die in a d…

But Britain lost 457 soldiers, Germany 62, France 90, Spain 97, Italy 53, Denmark 43 to aid USA in Afghanistan.

It's okay, in Europe you don't need to fight extreme Islamism. You've fully embraced it.
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