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How did they get your MAC address?
I was once part of the process of creating one. After two rounds, business decided too much money is wasted here and all the nonsense will stay. Better to have too much listed than too little.
I am in India and this is the reason I have not verified till now. I do not know how LinkedIn has the audacity to ask for this level of personal detail. This seems dystopian to me. LinkedIn is a social network and I wish there was an alternative.
The alternative is stay far away from digital slavery. Keep out of the slaughterhouse. Never approach it, and denounce it with every breath and fiber of your being.
Do you have a phone? It's a surveillance device. Its entire purpose from day one was to enslave you. Do not participate.
The question is, how much are you willing to give up in order to obtain freedom? What lengths will you go to? How badly do you really want it?
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> American companies don’t owe your European nationalist ambitions a dime. Use their products at your own discretion. As a fairly vociferous eu person....I fully agree. However, gdpr covers all eu residents, so if US companies don't want to obey eu law, that'sa fine, too.
Nobody is forcing you to use LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an American product, made by an American company in America, subject to American law. When you create an account - you agree to American terms and conditions, arbitrated by American courts. LinkedIn doesn't need to obey to EU law. It needs to obey to American law, which allows LinkedIn to do business with anybody (other than people from sanctioned countries) whilst c…
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Good write up I guess, but I'm just so tired of all the AI-isms in every damn thing. "Your European passport is one quiet subpoena away" Why does the subpoena need to be quiet? If I search my chats with ChatGPT for the word "quiet", I get a ridiculous number of results. "Quietly this, quietly that". It's almost like the new em dash. There's many others all over this blog post I won't bother calling out. "Understandin…
When people leave in things like staccato language and Blogspot era emphasis, I feel like I might as well copy the Persona privacy policy and prompt my own AI(s) on the topic and read that instead.
> My NFC chip data — the digital info stored on the chip inside my passport Do we know how they get that? Because my fingerprints are also in there, so...
And indeed, fingerprints are only accessible using privileged access. Not even you, the passport holder, has access.
Somehow the fundamentals of places like linkedin, gmail, google, facebook, etc have eluded people. 1. they are selling you as a target. 2. some people, governments, groups, whatever are willing to pay a lot of money to obtain information about you. 3. why would someone pay good money to target you unless they were going to profit from doing so. are they stupid? no. 4. where does that profit come from? If some one is…
At what point is that not enough for them to stop doing data brokerage or sharing?
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>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…
I really appreciate this write-up. Was forced to verify to get access to a new account. Like, an interstitial page that forced verification before even basic access. Brief context for that: was being granted a salesnav licence, but to my work address with no account attached to it. Plus I had an existing salesnav trial underway on main account and didn't want to give access to that work. So I reluctantly verified wit…
> Was forced to verify to get access to a new account. Like, an interstitial page that forced verification before even basic access. I'm forced to verify to access my existing account. I cannot delete it, nor opt out of 'being used for AI content' without first handing them over even more information I'm sure will be used for completely benign purposes.
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“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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> American companies don’t owe your European nationalist ambitions a dime. Use their products at your own discretion. As a fairly vociferous eu person....I fully agree. However, gdpr covers all eu residents, so if US companies don't want to obey eu law, that'sa fine, too.
Nobody is forcing you to use LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an American product, made by an American company in America, subject to American law. When you create an account - you agree to American terms and conditions, arbitrated by American courts. LinkedIn doesn't need to obey to EU law. It needs to obey to American law, which allows LinkedIn to do business with anybody (other than people from sanctioned countries) whilst c…
Yes, they do.
> If you don't agree to the terms, don't use LinkedIn.
We agree on that.