Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

thelocalstack.eu

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

301–310 of 516 posts

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

#301

Post by saghm »

barbazoo wrote: post #213
bachmeier wrote: post #207

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a good example of why it's insane that nobody at Mozilla cares that they hire CEOs that have only a LinkedIn page. If you want to visit the website of the Mozilla CEO, you have to create an account and log in. No big deal if it's a CEO of a plastics manufacturing company, but when the mission is fighting against the behavior of companies like LinkedIn, it makes me wonder why Mozilla exists.

It’s hard to be perfect.

Good thing quality isn't binary! It's pretty attainable to at be halfway decent

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

#303

Post by __float »

saghm wrote: post #299
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"

I mean, two of them are cloud vendors. The rest just seem like very boring components of a (somewhat) modern data pipeline.

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

#304

Post by Aldipower »

csmpltn wrote: post #214
wolvoleo wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Building a site like LinkedIn is really easy. Europe can easily do this. All it is is yet another social media site of which there are tons. There is nothing special about LinkedIn. The reason we didn't was critical mass. Everyone was already on linkedin and there wasn't really a reason to pick something else until the US started becoming a nuisance. It's marketing, not technical. I'm sure an EU alternative will come…

> I'm sure an EU alternative will come up now that the US is no longer a trustworthy partner. A lot of people like myself now have ethical issues with using american products (especially from big tech) and there's a lot of demand for EU-local stuff that wasn't there before. This is all hot air. If it's so easy to build, it would've been built by now. I bet you that there won't be a single successful European LinkedIn…

There _was_ a successfully LinkedIn competitor at least in Germany. Xing. But they made a lot of wrong decision..

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

#305

Post by ericmay »

IshKebab wrote: post #263
ericmay wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never connect with anyone you haven’t met. If a work colleague or someone is on a call and doesn’t use video, no connection either. Don’t upload and store your resume on LinkedIn. There is no reason to do so. Also, I don’t recall where this setting is, but make the default behavior such that if someone finds you and tries to connect with you, they actually follow you instead. This cuts down aggressively on spammers b…

Why? It's pretty useful for connecting with recruiters in my experience, and I don't think anyone can actually do anything just because they have a connection with you. I do ignore the connections from random students though tbf.

Connecting with recruiters is mostly a waste of time, and generally anyone can just fake being a recruiter. Once someone has a connection with you they can see your extended network, they know where you work, they find out all information you have shared with on your profile, &c. The recruiter may be using you to connect with someone else. You also start to consume their content since you are connected. Better to let them follow you and then when it's time to reach out to offer you a job/send an in-mail.

Generally speaking, unless you operate at an elite level or at an elite institution, you're not getting a ton of worthwhile cold intros from recruiters.

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

#306

Post by lejalv »

wolvoleo wrote: post #183
csmpltn wrote: post #166

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

Building a site like LinkedIn is really easy. Europe can easily do this. All it is is yet another social media site of which there are tons. There is nothing special about LinkedIn. The reason we didn't was critical mass. Everyone was already on linkedin and there wasn't really a reason to pick something else until the US started becoming a nuisance. It's marketing, not technical. I'm sure an EU alternative will come…

I have an issue with any US-American product.

I guess Americans wouldn't like to buy from Nazi Germany in 1942 and so do I with buying US-American in 2026

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

#307

Post by Aldipower »

laszlojamf wrote: post #148
pavel_lishin wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

Those records are not connected to your ID and personal data.

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

#308

Post by y-c-o-m-b »

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…

All of which is meaningless if it's not reflected properly in their legal documents/terms. I've had interactions with the Flock CEO here on Hacker News and he also tried to reassure us that nothing fishy is/was going on. Take it with a grain of salt.

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

#309

Post by Aldipower »

keithluu wrote: post #219

I 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.

I just registered at platform.OpenAI.com two days ago for MCP Apps registration and had to do the Persona process! Now I could cry.

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

#310

Post by lejalv »

csmpltn wrote: post #289
buzer wrote: post #281

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> you agree to American terms and conditions, arbitrated by American courts. "Designated Countries. We use the term “Designated Countries” to refer to countries in the European Union (EU), European Economic Area (EEA), and Switzerland." "If you reside in the “Designated Countries”, you are entering into this Contract with LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (“LinkedIn Ireland”) and LinkedIn Ireland will be the control…

Nobody cares. They keep a skeleton crew office in the EU for compliance purposes only. Whether they have an office in the EU or not is inconsequential. If they closed it tomorrow, the EU would literally have nothing to go after...

You're saying they are buccaneers, and validating that as the fundamental working principle of American capitalism.
Post reply on HN